Example sentences of "of it seem [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But most of it seems to be going to shady ‘ Near Eastern ’ dealers and private citizens . |
| 6 | Slater has a lot of style , even if most of it seems to be on loan from Jack Nicholson ( by way of Peter Falk ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Much of it seems to be haunted landscape poetry . |
| 9 | 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 . |