Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [adv] seem " in BNC.
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1 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
2 | Apples it now seems — along with some other fruit — contain a substance which may help us fight off skin cancer caused by ozone depletion and lung cancer caused by tobacco smoke . |
3 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
4 | Even in purely political terms it never seems to have occurred to Polybius and Posidonius that the command of a foreign language meant power to the Romans . |
5 | ( In such door to door visiting programmes it certainly seems right to be open to talk , to lead people to Christ or to pray for healing . |
6 | At times it almost seems to run rather than wander ! |
7 | " That 's handsome of you , but considering our relative workloads it scarcely seems fair , " I said . |
8 | On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers . |