Example sentences of "it seemed [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Baptiste kept him company for a while as he blazed away , but when the ninth wicket fell with the score on 166 and fourteen overs still unused , it seemed that his effort would be in vain . |
| 32 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
| 33 | Now it seemed that today would be the same . |
| 34 | It seemed that he had heard her , because there was silence again and Jinny turned back towards the little patch of bushes she was picking over . |
| 35 | But it seemed that he had sparked something off . |
| 36 | It seemed that she , now a widow , lived in Scotland with her only child , Celia , her son-in-law , and their two little boys . |
| 37 | It seemed that the man hiding in the bushes by the gate existed only in the mind of Mrs Browning , although she was quite genuinely afraid . |
| 38 | It seemed that she could no longer use this place to escape from the reality of the present : from her fears for Simon and Bella , her growing rage against Gazzer and from a terrible , sinister premonition that her life was about to fall apart . |
| 39 | It seemed that what they wanted most was facilities . |
| 40 | During the Cold War it seemed that aliens , like communists , were poised to invade the West . |
| 41 | Despite the prompting of his imagination , it seemed that the key to the mysteries did not lie here after all . |
| 42 | It is Eastern European in origin , and when I was in Hungary it seemed that every back garden was devoted to growing a mixture of dill and poppies . |
| 43 | It seemed that she should say something , for Isabel would let the meal run on in total silence , as every meal now ran , until Kathleen feared that she might scream . |
| 44 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 45 | It seemed that , all around her , things were changing — old , beloved routines that had felt safe and comfortable were decaying into new patterns . |
| 46 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 47 | And it seemed that within three months of going to see her , the bingeing and fasting , and endless weighing myself and despairing at my size , had stopped . |
| 48 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 49 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 50 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 51 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 52 | It seemed that only in their passion could they drown their fears . |
| 53 | It seemed that most villagers had turned out to welcome their hero as more than 100 cars filled the field adjacent to Gaselee 's Saxon Lodge Stables . |
| 54 | When Andy Mutch scored a deserved equaliser for Wolves five minutes from time , it seemed that Ipswich manager John Lyall 's pep talk at the interval had been to no avail . |
| 55 | It seemed that decades of national decline had been reversed by Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 56 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 57 | Up to 1970 it seemed that it was mutually beneficial to allow large scale migration to remove ‘ surplus ’ labour from these southern rural regions . |
| 58 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 59 | Working from these definitions , it seemed that secondary prevention included two very different situations , that is , early identification of comparatively mild problems with a hopeful outcome , and more serious problems involving risk , in which amelioration and containment might be all that could be achieved . |
| 60 | To environmentalists — and an increasing number of foreign foresters and ecologists — it seemed that Britain too had all the signs of forest decline . |