Example sentences of "so it seem " in BNC.

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1 Brian Cowie said : ‘ It was the Ipswich branch of CAMRA which mounted a publicity campaign to save the brewery and so it seemed appropriate that the launch of Pride should be at the festival . ’
2 All the mosquitoes in the orchard were in my trench last night , or so it seemed !
3 To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed .
4 And so it seemed .
5 The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere .
6 So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm .
7 After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily .
8 Finally , after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions — or so it seemed — we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi .
9 The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air .
10 Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated .
11 And so it seemed .
12 If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines .
13 His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him .
14 ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
15 For many years — or so it seemed — he appeared in EastEnders as the lovable barman Wicksy .
16 But I did n't have to push too hard that day , everything was going his way , or so it seemed .
17 One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed .
18 With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing .
19 Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick .
20 In seconds , or so it seemed , the Glory was mounting the rutted track up to Monument Hill .
21 I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do .
22 However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward .
23 So it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated , and I could hear just what it would be like in my head .
24 Venables fixed an abseil peg , a bomber angle … or so it seemed .
25 The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed .
26 Christmas carols blared tinnily from a loudspeaker system overhead and from every shop window , or so it seemed , the public was reminded that only four more shopping days remained until Christmas .
27 We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house .
28 Or so it seemed at the time .
29 She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance .
30 The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there .
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