Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [conj] it seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 2 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 4 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 5 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 6 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 7 | Choosing the trees is not as easy as it seems . |
| 8 | PRINCE 'S new £50 million record contract is not as good as it seems . |
| 9 | However , this is not as tautological as it seems , since it implies a relationship between values and action that is problematic , as we shall see later . |
| 10 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 11 | But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random . |
| 12 | The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems . |
| 13 | Month after month , as the British economy has languished in a deep and damaging recession , the only reaction from a puzzled and beleaguered Government is the claim that it is not as bad as it seems and that good times are round the corner . |
| 14 | Jane Carter discovers that life on a WPG European Tour is n't always as easy as it seems |
| 15 | Finally Big Bear takes Little Bear out to show that the darkness is n't as black as it seems — and he falls asleep in it , in Big Bear 's arms . |
| 16 | Putting on weight is n't as easy as it seems — it 's not just a matter of eating calorie-crammed foods . |
| 17 | All this is n't as complicated as it seems . |
| 18 | This is n't as bad as it seems ; switching a PC on and off does it more harm than leaving it powered up . |
| 19 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 20 | The issue is not quite as petty as it seems . |
| 21 | Yes , it is quite as sinister as it seems . |
| 22 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 24 | Its not actually as bad as it seems . |