Example sentences of "it seem [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect , Morrissey was on safe ground and , it seemed no one from The Sun reads the NME . |
| 2 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |
| 3 | The hours flew by and it seemed no time at all until she was back on the train , reliving every moment as she travelled home . |
| 4 | It seemed no time at all before the meeting was over . |
| 5 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 6 | It seemed no one else was at home . |
| 7 | It seemed no more silly than — deportment classes or — physical exercises . ’ |
| 8 | That 's why it seemed no bad idea for somebody to know where I was yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 9 | It seemed a shame to disturb him , but … |
| 10 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 11 | So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm . |
| 12 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 13 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 14 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 15 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 16 | ‘ We dug the pond because there was n't anything to look at and it seemed a very obvious thing to do . |
| 17 | It worked , and at first it seemed a perfect arrangement . |
| 18 | McLeish thought that it seemed a reasonably sensible plan . |
| 19 | It seemed a lost cause . |
| 20 | He had felt like beating her up , so it seemed a mild enough rebuke for the trouble she 'd caused him . |
| 21 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 22 | It seemed a very old-fashioned and Victorian success story . |
| 23 | It seemed a part of nature 's force , as though it had erupted from the earth rather than being bolted to it . |
| 24 | It seemed a treat to put a long dress on , I actually enjoyed it ; but to play around in I had jeans and trousers , so I had the best of both worlds really . |
| 25 | Beyond a forestry plantation , the castle appeared again , and closer up it seemed a marvel , with French château-like towers , and a classy name , Classybawn . |
| 26 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 27 | It seemed a marathon to me but realistically it was roughly one thirty-fifth of a mile , which left thirty-four thirty-fifths still to go . |
| 28 | It seemed a very strange perception , since everybody knows that the first thing such people did following privatisation was to double , and even treble , the already generous salaries of themselves and their colleagues . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed a bit odd , but it was an attempted burglary on his premises and an assault on his body and we had to respect his wishes . |
| 30 | It seemed a daft notion as we hurtled west along the motorway from Nice with Porsches and Ferraris whistling past our ears . |