Example sentences of "seemed little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , there seemed little to commend it . |
| 2 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 3 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 4 | Sometimes they fought and sometimes they fucked and there seemed little difference between the two . |
| 5 | American political pressure for agreement on the formation of the force was so intense that there seemed little chance of it being rejected by NATO on military or financial grounds . |
| 6 | They had exchanged blood ; there seemed little point in saying what she planned . |
| 7 | There seemed little alternative , with a woman whose reaction to them was to tolerate — and to laugh . |
| 8 | There seemed little chance of an away win when Lineker and a Teale own goal gave Spurs a 2–0 cushion after only 13 minutes . |
| 9 | There seemed little more to do . |
| 10 | There seemed little point in worrying ; the 12-string guitar work of Johnny Marr was to play a crucial part in the band 's make up . |
| 11 | There seemed little reason to expect conditions to be more favourable further east under Mesozoic cover ; few wells enter the thrust sheets which are expected there , and none are deep enough to prove what lies beneath them . |
| 12 | Certainly there seemed little point in giving either side the initial advantage ; invasion by one might be precipitated by an agreement with the other , and if Germany and the USSR came to blows , it would inevitably be on Polish soil . |
| 13 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 14 | Seven-year-old Sonia Altman had a guarantor in Middlesbrough but , having missed one transport date because she had to have her tonsils out , there seemed little prospect of an early escape from Vienna . |
| 15 | Ted McCarty claims it was intentional , since there seemed little point in covering an expensive maple top with black paint . |
| 16 | Decisions about the design of such machinery were made by the suppliers ; there seemed little variation in the machines on offer in their implications for de-skilling ; and the result was a gradual process of de-skilling of most of the production workers . |
| 17 | There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy . |
| 18 | There also seemed little point in rebuilding the earlier tree structures with new word lists on the latest machines . |
| 19 | Except for the matter of who held the weapons , there seemed little distinction between gang members and the scarred , tattooed troopers clad in olive-drab hive tunics hung with amulets . |
| 20 | In addition , because of its essentially intergovernmental nature , there seemed little doubt that it would have reduced the role and significance of the EEC Commission and its bureaucracy in Brussels . |
| 21 | Cascades of salt spray had already washed some of the kittiwakes ' nests off the lower ledges when we took a last look out before nightfall , and there seemed little chance that the old ‘ Sulan ’ would be able to make a landing tomorrow , even if the sea conditions allowed a crossing from Sørvágur . |
| 22 | The basic business of looking after them felt so demanding and emotionally wearing that there seemed little rime left to introduce them to ‘ real living ’ . |
| 23 | He made friends easily and after his wife died there seemed little to keep him tied to his home area . |
| 24 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 25 | None the less the fact was that the English had hung on , and there seemed little chance that they would be dislodged . |
| 26 | There seemed little chance of his being taken on . |
| 27 | This was much higher than pre-war figures , and there seemed little prospect , on existing policies , of any significant decline . |
| 28 | Martha observed that as England was to have a bastard for a queen , there seemed little harm in having Sir Gregory Roscarrock 's bastard for a husband . |
| 29 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 30 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |