Example sentences of "of it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of it seemed to provoke in her a torrent of recrimination . |
| 2 | As a boy , much of the Bible puzzled and disturbed me , it was read daily in chapel and much of it seemed astonishingly unchristian . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of it seemed to cross into the Aids field , which had nothing to do with his brief at the Royal Free . ’ |
| 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 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 . |
| 6 | Thunder crashed … and the sound of it seemed to fill the whispered voice with dread . |
| 7 | He was pumped full of sedation , but none of it seemed to work and Gilbert had decided against more in case he died . |
| 8 | But now that reason was gone , and the memory that remained of it seemed rather mean and cheap . |
| 9 | None of it seemed remotely realistic or important any longer . |
| 10 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 11 | The mere thought of it seemed to drag a blanket of depression about her shoulders , causing her to turn away from him and go to the desk . |
| 12 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was all of these things , but somehow none of it seemed to matter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But most of it seems to be going to shady ‘ Near Eastern ’ dealers and private citizens . |
| 17 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 18 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 19 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 20 | Little of it seems to show . |
| 21 | Slater has a lot of style , even if most of it seems to be on loan from Jack Nicholson ( by way of Peter Falk ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There have n't been any major er , examples of er , bed blocking in , in the , in the county , so that part of it seems to have worked er , smoothly . |
| 24 | Much of it seems to be haunted landscape poetry . |
| 25 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 26 | It is a sort of it seems like almost a national characteristic , and after a while you get used to it again , but it is that is something which really does strike Americans when they come here . |
| 27 | A rite of reaffirming vows made at baptism and at confirmation , a rite particularly intended for those who have subsequently experienced some sort of dramatic renewal of their Christian life which makes their previous experience of it seem as nothing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization . |
| 30 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |