Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it seem to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the majority of the fly seems to be no less dead than a dodo , one side of it seems to be the intact creature it had been 30 seconds earlier . |
2 | A further children 's book on gardening is worth noting here , Let's Go Gardening by Ursula Kruger ( Lutterworth , February , £9.95 , 0 7188 2879 8 ) , though portions of it seem to be the work of Wiggle the Worm and Sunny the Sunflower Seed . |
3 | The shrine and the whole house shook and the ground beneath it seemed to be shifting away as though in an earthquake . |
4 | It was a very small patch , about the size of a postage stamp , and the two sides of it seemed to be splitting down the middle and opening slowly outwards , like a pair of shutters on some tiny window . |
5 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
6 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
7 | The intuitive idea behind it seems to be this : since morality is an expression of one 's rational nature , it is essentially self-determined . |