Example sentences of "it seem [verb] [art] [adj] " 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 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 4 | It seemed to embody a deep dislike , and she found that wounding . |
| 5 | In the twilight it seemed to shine a pale , opalescent blue , nearly white . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seemed to promise a new beginning , almost a new birth . |
| 8 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock . |
| 11 | Thunder crashed … and the sound of it seemed to fill the whispered voice with dread . |
| 12 | When I mentioned Spain , it seemed to make a big difference . |
| 13 | But , initially at least , it seemed to express the right kinds of sentiment . |
| 14 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 15 | It seemed to tighten the tenuous link between them , even as she wept for him . |
| 16 | It seemed to bring a coppery taste to her mouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 26 | It seems knew the previous owner who had adapted his mother 's former whole house . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That 's what It seems that you do n't It seems to affect the immediate folk and not many other folks nowadays . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |