Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 4 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 7 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |
| 8 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 10 | It was impossible to know what was going on in her mind , but he was thankful that she seemed in no way agitated . |
| 11 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 12 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
| 13 | The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away . |
| 14 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 15 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |