Example sentences of "seemed [adv] an " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 9 | To go shopping with my father and mother on Saturday evenings seemed quite an adventure , especially in the winter when , under the flickering gas lamps , Salisbury became a different city . |
| 10 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |