Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] it seem " in BNC.

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1	The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident .
2	So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy .
3	Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street .
4	The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom .
5	A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective .
6	But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin .
7	His disgruntled voice made it seem as though the precautions of the drug smugglers formed a personal affront to his patriotism .
8	From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester .
9	Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls .
10	The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger .

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