Example sentences of "when it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |
| 2 | There was , incidentally , a moment in the 1860s when it seemed that the newly proposed Methodist College might be founded in Portadown but then , for various reasons , Belfast was chosen . |
| 3 | This was made perfectly clear by our spontaneous reaction one morning when it seemed that the game was finally up . |
| 4 | There was a curious silence , a moment when it seemed that something might be said . |
| 5 | On a day when it seemed as if every floating vote was going to prove crucial , I detected a strong whiff of electoral blackmail . |
| 6 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 7 | In the middle of the afternoon , when it seemed that the work would never be done on time , Bellybutton arrived at the yard . |
| 8 | Lee may have found all that a valuable lesson , but there were times when it seemed Marvin just had n't learned at all . |
| 9 | ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain . |
| 10 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 11 | There was a moment when it seemed that General Powell was commanding the crowd . |
| 12 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 13 | And sometimes since I have wished … ’ and here Minch dropped her voice low as if she was ashamed of what she was about to say , ‘ … well , there have been times when it seemed it might have been better if they had taken me . |
| 14 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 15 | Indeed , he even had a buccaneering moment when it seemed to him that to have a choc-bar himself would do the trick of making him exactly like her . |
| 16 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 17 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 18 | In a country where infant mortality is low , it is expected that children will live into adulthood and outlive their parents , so that there will not be a time when it seems likely that a child will die before their parents . |
| 19 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 20 | In short , an awful lot , since this is an information-packed service that is potentially of great use to us all , particularly at a time when it seems to be getting more and more difficult to get hard facts out of other parts of the aviation information system . |