Example sentences of "it seem [conj] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 2 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 3 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 4 | It seemed that all I had was myself , and those few very close people called my loved ones . |
| 5 | It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid . |
| 6 | It seemed that all her concentration and all the power of every muscle in her body were focused on the point where her fist struck the bull 's back . |
| 7 | It seemed that all of the owners had taken the opportunity of visiting the horses while the train was standing still , and listen though I might I could hear no one else reporting trouble . |
| 8 | It seemed that all the other Minpins from the big tree had turned up as well to witness the great victory over the dreaded Gruncher . |
| 9 | Now as England players we were not allowed to give interviews during a game , but it seemed that all the Aussie players had their own programmes . |
| 10 | Suddenly it seemed that all the news was good . |
| 11 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 12 | The end of the nineteenth century was the climax of the Age of Science ; what remains for us is to glimpse briefly the aftermath of that confident period in which it seemed that all the interesting questions must have answers , and that it was the business of natural philosophy to find them out . |
| 13 | Then it seemed that all of a sudden Rosie was n't so merry : her laughter was forced , and she did n't wisecrack as you were passing her , until Peggy felt she must seek the reason . |
| 14 | It seems that all reasonably efficient communication systems are digital in this sense . |
| 15 | If natural selection were given its head , and an infinite amount of time to work in , then it seems that all lineages would tend inexorably towards ‘ perfection ’ ; where perfection was defined as perfect adaptation . |
| 16 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 17 | This extraordinary increase is due in part to the fact that the dogs breed twice a year and it seems that all females give birth whereas in wolf society only dominant females do so . |
| 18 | As long as attention is diverted to supposedly universal standards and the differences of opinion and taste which undermine them , it seems that all value slides into the subjectivity from which factual judgements are exempt . |
| 19 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 20 | None of the four surveys detected two separate sources from this region , so it seems that all the sources are the same extended object , and that this lies close to 17h03min , -44°20' . |
| 21 | It seems that all work and no play , even in the workplace , makes not only for a dull boy , but also one that is not as efficient . |