Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 2 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 3 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 4 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 5 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 6 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 7 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |