Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] it seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry if it seems I have tricked you , my dear Watson . |
| 2 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry if it seems almost unnatural . |
| 4 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 5 | Times may be tough but it seems we 're taking less care of our money than ever before . |
| 6 | Grandmother Hilda Mason , of Clapham , south London , said : ‘ I 'm heartbroken but it seems to be the way young people go about their business these days . ’ |
| 7 | Clearly , some re-thinking will be necessary but it seems both inevitable and desirable that there should be some loosening of the ties between the CNAA and the institutions whose courses it validates . |
| 8 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 9 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 10 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 11 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 12 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 13 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 14 | Scott 's education is uncertain but it seems likely that he attended the cathedral school , Canterbury , and afterwards went to Cambridge University . |
| 15 | The notion is attractive because it seems to be the central organising principle for a lot of discourse . |
| 16 | It is sometimes argued that direct persuasion applied by A to B not to perform his contract is itself the procurement of breach by unlawful means , but the argument is circular and it seems better simply to say that in this form of the tort no use of unlawful means is required . |