Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seem [prep] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 2 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 3 | All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score . |
| 4 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 5 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 6 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 7 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 8 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 9 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 10 | The clay tablets of the Knossos temple archive record such large quantities of produce that it seems as if the temple was at the very centre of the organization of the Minoan economy . |