Example sentences of "seem [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed like the end of an era for licensed dealers . |
| 2 | It seemed in the end there was little else to do but actually to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |
| 3 | But then she seemed in the end she she picked it up . |
| 4 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 5 | In Edinburgh , where the Edinburgh Typographical Society heaved a sigh of relief when the Caledonian Press failed in 1865 , that must have seemed like the end of the matter . |
| 6 | Their election seems in the end to owe more to the system than to the voters . |
| 7 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 8 | Immediately after her portrait is completed Nicholas woos her in a typically crude , fabliau manner , presented by the narrator in appropriately marked , fabliau language : Alison puts up some resistance to this rude assault ( 3282 – 7 ) but as Nicholas persists , crying mercy and speaking fair , she seems in the end to be a relatively easy conquest for him ( 3288 – 93 ) . |
| 9 | If you make the wrong decision it may seem like the end of the word , but it is not — it can always be put right by moving again ! |
| 10 | This might seem like the end of a successful story , but far from it ! |