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 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 19 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 20 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 23 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 24 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 25 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 26 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 27 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 28 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 29 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 30 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |