Example sentences of "often seemed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 2 | In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis . |
| 3 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 4 | Far from shunning the courts , Sri Lankans made what very often seemed to the British excessive use of them . |
| 5 | The consequences of this often seemed to be a neglect of Europe , but the impression was misleading . |
| 6 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 7 | You seldom did — there so often seemed to be a story breaking just as you were thinking of getting away . |
| 8 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 9 | Research rather suggested that there often seemed to be a dual political system of interests , action , and demands at the local level . |
| 10 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 11 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 12 | Laundering its altar linen and hoovering its aisle carpet often seemed like the instinctive care she gave to anything dependent of which she was fond . |
| 13 | With his fasting and commitment to non-violence , the diminutive Chavez often seemed like a Spanish-speaking Gandhi . |
| 14 | TQM often seemed like " just another initiative " to be tacked on to countless others . |
| 15 | Although , at twenty-five , her escort was only two years her junior , it often seemed like ten . |