Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 2 | Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom . |
| 3 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 4 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 5 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 6 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 7 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 8 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 9 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 10 | This is I think there is an administrative question how we handle this and it seems to be running very well . |
| 11 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 12 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 13 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 14 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 15 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 16 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 17 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 18 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 19 | I was happy to agree with this because it seemed to me that teachers were not ready for all the problems of assessment of speaking and listening for pupils aged 14 to 16 , and for the profile component to be given a 20 per cent weighting would be a considerable step forward . |
| 20 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
| 21 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 22 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 23 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 24 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 25 | During the affluent 80s when it seemed property prices soared higher each day , there was a lot of money to be made in real estate . |
| 26 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 27 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 28 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 29 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 30 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |