Example sentences of "seemed [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 2 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 3 | Boxing Day seemed rather an anti-climax . |
| 4 | To many in England the truce of Bruges seemed literally a sell-out : the French forced the garrison at Saint-Sauveur to hand the fortress over to them directly in return for 53,000 francs . |
| 5 | The whole affair seemed merely a minor mystery . |
| 6 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 7 | Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots . |
| 8 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 9 | The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured . |
| 10 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 11 | The explanation which had been so clear to her when she shut the book by the pool now seemed only a thought , whimsical and without any solid foundation . |
| 12 | To the early Bolshevik leaders it seemed only a matter of months , if not days , before first Europe and later the rest of the world joined the Soviet and other socialist states . |
| 13 | It seemed only a matter of time , therefore , before the spending cuts and restrictions already imposed on the ILEA were followed by more drastic action . |
| 14 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 15 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 16 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 17 | Now looking back seemed just a reminder of the mistakes we were still making . |
| 18 | Policing of black-out restrictions was another task which fell to local Party representatives and , in the early war years when air raids seemed scarcely a menace , frequently formed another source of irritation . |
| 19 | It seemed hardly a week went by without a new ‘ breakthrough ’ in the technological aspects of the sport ; costs were inflating ; teams could n't be run without proper ( i.e. large ) budgets . |
| 20 | It became a favourite book of the Evangelicals , whose influence was rising in the Church of England ; by the 1840s there seemed hardly a Christian nursery in England and Scotland , including that of the Queen , without a copy . |
| 21 | But according to Paul Holmes , Date could not return Minton 's affection and seemed always a little embarrassed to be the object of such attention . |
| 22 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 23 | To many of her friends she seemed more a mystic than a likely scientist , despite her encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history ; a woman with religious respect for and understanding of the environment , an ecologist long before the term was widely known . |
| 24 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 25 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 26 | There were lots of dealers there and lots of dope going around and David , to some extent anyway , seemed slightly an outsider , being very quiet and just arranging the gigs , but he was never really a part of what was going on . |
| 27 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 28 | Although the journey from Ludlow , accomplished in record time , had been arduous in the extreme for one of his years , the yearned-for reunion with his family seemed now an anti-climax . |
| 29 | In particular the idea of competition for audiences but not for revenue seemed increasingly an expression of the British genius for making practical contraptions which then turn into beautiful machines . |
| 30 | Sybil Williams , though , seemed indeed a solution . |