Example sentences of "[conj] so it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the mosquitoes in the orchard were in my trench last night , or so it seemed ! |
| 2 | To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed . |
| 3 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 4 | After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Finally , after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions — or so it seemed — we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi . |
| 6 | The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air . |
| 7 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 8 | If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines . |
| 9 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |
| 10 | For many years — or so it seemed — he appeared in EastEnders as the lovable barman Wicksy . |
| 11 | But I did n't have to push too hard that day , everything was going his way , or so it seemed . |
| 12 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 13 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 14 | Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick . |
| 15 | In seconds , or so it seemed , the Glory was mounting the rutted track up to Monument Hill . |
| 16 | However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward . |
| 17 | Venables fixed an abseil peg , a bomber angle … or so it seemed . |
| 18 | The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed . |
| 19 | Christmas carols blared tinnily from a loudspeaker system overhead and from every shop window , or so it seemed , the public was reminded that only four more shopping days remained until Christmas . |
| 20 | We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house . |
| 21 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 22 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 23 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 24 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 25 | Mingling , what 's more , with Dorcas gang members , or so it seemed ? |
| 26 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 27 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 28 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 29 | So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many . |
| 30 | It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' . |