Example sentences of "it seemed [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 2 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 3 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 4 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 5 | When , in July 1939 , it seemed that war was inevitable , the Poles decided to give the French and the British the results of their research , as well as two actual Enigma machines . |
| 6 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 7 | It seemed both sides were optimistic last night that an agreement could be reached . |
| 8 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |