Example sentences of "it seem that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 2 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 3 | Then it seemed that a new cycle of muttering was beginning . |
| 4 | It seemed that a malevolent spirit was out to get me . |
| 5 | It seemed that a major factor in being granted access , was that I was able to convince the deciding parties that the research would be ‘ useful ’ for practitioners . |
| 6 | It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea . |
| 7 | It seemed that a fuller role was required for the M.P . |
| 8 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 9 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 10 | To the layman it seemed that a decreasing service was being provided at increasing expense . |
| 11 | It is Eastern European in origin , and when I was in Hungary it seemed that every back garden was devoted to growing a mixture of dill and poppies . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the process soon got out of hand , for reasons having less to do with student need or the demands of a rapidly advancing subject than with professional status , it seemed that every American academic ( the glossy-text phenomenon is almost exclusively American ) would have to have his ( seldom , if ever , her ) own textbook . |
| 13 | For some weeks , it seemed that the joint US/NZ resolution on drift-netting would founder in the mire of State Department compromise , as successive US proposals were rejected as too weak by the New Zealanders . |
| 14 | At one time it seemed that the best approach to the problem would be to reduce the level of lead in petrol , but not to eliminate it altogether . |
| 15 | It seemed that the Prime Minister was unable to dismiss her Chancellor , but was unable to invest him with full confidence either . |
| 16 | But it seemed that the longed-for reunion with his family was not to take place . |
| 17 | It seemed that the unschooled Wolof children lacked Western self-consciousness ; they did not distinguish between their own thought or statement about something and the thing itself . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1950 it seemed that the Korean crisis was well on the way to a solution . |
| 19 | No French troops troubled the road to Mons ; it seemed that the Belgian countryside slept under its summer heat . |
| 20 | To their untutored peasant minds it seemed that the endless rows of alien rubber trees marching with unnatural precision across great tracts of their wild ancestral jungles provoked the storm each night to new extremes of savagery . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it seemed that the weak force did obey the combined symmetry CP . |
| 22 | It seemed that the industrial revolution was creating its own work-force . |
| 23 | At first it seemed that the only delay was in making the cottage fit to occupy , and Coleridge wondered whether , until it was ready , there might not be some rooms to spare at Shurton Court . |
| 24 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 25 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 26 | The former German capital , which had been under joint administration since 1945 , lay deep within the Soviet occupation zone and at first it seemed that the Western sectors would be starved into submission . |
| 27 | It seemed that the all-pervading light was weakening : it must have been late afternoon . |
| 28 | It seemed that the entire congregation was there helping , through breakfast time in the Undercroft until evening when everything was stowed away in Church leaving it presentable for he next day 's Service . |
| 29 | for one moment it seemed that the bald man would carry the situation through by sheer force of character . |
| 30 | Just as Frederick was gaining increasing power in Italy , and it seemed that the Holy See would become isolated from general support , Lucius died in November of 1185 and the new Pope Urban III , was one of Barbarossa 's fiercest opponents . |