Example sentences of "it seem the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , it seemed the Middlesbrough game might not go ahead because fire had badly damaged a stand and shotgun cartridges were found buried in the pitch . |
| 2 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |
| 3 | It seemed the prince would not have a witness influenced , even by his own daughter . |
| 4 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 5 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 6 | It seemed the water of Undersea did n't mingle with it or wash it away . |
| 7 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 8 | ‘ Between 1987 and 1990 it seemed the sky was the limit . |
| 9 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 10 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 11 | The book described it as ‘ remote ’ , but at this distance it seemed the centre of the world ; the eye of a ferocious storm whose outer edges could never pull free ; the heart of a titan , beating like thunder ; an energy so awesome that it was dragging the very edges of the forest ever closer . |
| 12 | It seemed the kind of place in which people grew embittered . |
| 13 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 14 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 15 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 16 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |
| 17 | Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor and Labour MP for Dunfermline East , said that it seemed the decision might now be as late as May . |
| 18 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 19 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 20 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 21 | Thanks to Sybille two local women were hired to do extra cooking and cleaning on these occasions , when it seemed the concept of the extended family had turned the Ashleys into hoteliers . |
| 22 | It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar . |
| 23 | It seemed the family had the same feeling because a week later I had a pleasant letter from the mother . |
| 24 | It seemed the family found husbands here , and brides . |
| 25 | It seemed the weather had beaten me and that I was wasting my time . |
| 26 | Within a matter of hours it seemed the weather had changed . |
| 27 | It seemed the world was more complicated than he had imagined . |
| 28 | Emerson Fittipaldi was the next Lotus world champion and , just as it seemed the midas touch was deserting Chapman , American Mario Andretti lifted the 1978 title in the Lotus 78/79 , with team-mate Ronnie Peterson ( Swe ) second . |
| 29 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 30 | It seemed the weight of evidence had come down substantially and significantly for the Crown case . |