Example sentences of "it seem [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the large bedrooms had been turned into a nursery and it seemed to hold every conceivable toy a child could have . |
| 2 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 3 | It seemed to embody a deep dislike , and she found that wounding . |
| 4 | The bicycle was a powerful symbol of social change in this era , summing up so easily the fears brewing around popular freedoms and popular amusements , and it seemed to touch a brittle nerve of the process of democratisation . |
| 5 | It seemed to promise a new beginning , almost a new birth . |
| 6 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 7 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 8 | It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock . |
| 9 | Thunder crashed … and the sound of it seemed to fill the whispered voice with dread . |
| 10 | When I mentioned Spain , it seemed to make a big difference . |
| 11 | But , initially at least , it seemed to express the right kinds of sentiment . |
| 12 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 13 | It seemed to tighten the tenuous link between them , even as she wept for him . |
| 14 | It seemed to bring a coppery taste to her mouth . |
| 15 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |
| 16 | To men of the Middle Ages astronomy was of particular interest because it seemed to offer the best means of understanding , and possibly controlling , terrestrial events . |
| 17 | Some could even accept Spencer 's philosophy of progress through struggle , because it seemed to offer an updated version of the Protestant work ethic in which thrift and industry were rewarded in this world as well as the next . |
| 18 | The use of ‘ opens ’ was a paradoxical one as it seemed to address the unacknowledged absence of black women in white feminist discourses which encouraged women to re-see , re-read and re-invent lives and histories . |
| 19 | It seemed to show a complete disregard for the laws of Galileo , Newton and Einstein , moving through the atmosphere like an otter in pursuit of a fish . |
| 20 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 21 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 22 | It seems knew the previous owner who had adapted his mother 's former whole house . |
| 23 | Some of the popular writings it seems had a huge circulation : Samuel Solomon 's Guide to Health , or Advice to Both Sexes ran to 66 editions between 1782 and 1817 , and editions were still appearing in the later nineteenth century . |
| 24 | That 's what It seems that you do n't It seems to affect the immediate folk and not many other folks nowadays . |
| 25 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 26 | Beautifully scented by fragrant olive and lemon groves , slender cypress and exotic palm trees , for many it seems to represent the exact dream they have of Italy . |
| 27 | The dissociation of the Muftilik from a kadilik is thus important in that it seems to represent the further definition of a chiefly " religious ' authority , the representative of the more spiritual aspect of the Seriat as opposed to its practical application which was to some degree tainted , in the eyes of the pious , by its close association with secular government . |
| 28 | Moreover , rather as substance dualism tends to do , it seems to undermine the causal role of consciousness in , for example , bringing about or influencing actions . |
| 29 | Today it seems to evince a growing recognition that totalization can not be achieved without a movement involving the transcendence of itself . |
| 30 | Perhaps the one big glaring example where natural predation can have a significant effect , quite astonishing on occasions , is with greenfly , and no doubt the most familiar example — it seems to get the most publicity — is the ladybird . |