Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues . |
| 2 | On the subject of home improvements , why is it that whenever I attempt to carry out a simple repair job at home it always seems to cause big problems ? |
| 3 | IntePlan is basically a diary/database program and although the sample supplied was a self-running demo it certainly seemed attractive . |
| 4 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 5 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 6 | Even in incessant rain it still seemed lovely and , at least within its walls , remarkably unspoilt , though behind the medieval faades many houses have been relentlessly modernised . |
| 7 | Apples it now seems — along with some other fruit — contain a substance which may help us fight off skin cancer caused by ozone depletion and lung cancer caused by tobacco smoke . |
| 8 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 9 | Even in purely political terms it never seems to have occurred to Polybius and Posidonius that the command of a foreign language meant power to the Romans . |
| 10 | At first sight it certainly seems wasteful in such circumstances to require the decision-maker to decide again , and in some cases refusal of relief might be justifiable . |
| 11 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 12 | However , despite the mortality of L3 on the pasture it now seems that many survive in the soil for at least another year and on occasion appear to migrate on to the herbage . |
| 13 | ( In such door to door visiting programmes it certainly seems right to be open to talk , to lead people to Christ or to pray for healing . |
| 14 | From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology . |
| 15 | After some initial hesitation it now seems to be generally accepted that the value should be assessed at the date of the conversion ( though it should be noted that in other contexts the courts show some resistance to any universal rule that damages are to be assessed at the date of the wrong ) . |
| 16 | At times it almost seems to run rather than wander ! |
| 17 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 18 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 19 | But because we can not escape history it also seems either naive or even wicked . |
| 20 | " That 's handsome of you , but considering our relative workloads it scarcely seems fair , " I said . |
| 21 | On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers . |
| 22 | In fact it almost seems to be a condition of such performance that the exponent must not proceed logically but must temporarily inhibit his conscious critical faculties and accept control by intuition . |
| 23 | They also demonstrate the very considerable importance of scheduling and demographic targeting in establishing distinctions within broad categories : in order to make sense of broad programmatic genres like soap opera or crime series it always seems necessary to identify them with a qualifying time-slot — daytime soap , early evening soap and prime-time soap ; or , in Britain , pre-nine o'clock crime series ( the tradition of Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) , Juliet Bravo ( 1980–9 ) and The Bill ( 1988- ) and post-nine o'clock crime ( the subgenres of The Sweeney ( 1974–8 ) and Taggart ( 1985- ) , and of the US imports ) . |