Example sentences of "seem as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would seem as if he had always loved men , always and only loved men . |
| 2 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 3 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 4 | It could seem as if nothing except attendance at the church 's services divided a pagan intellectual such as the professor Marius Victorinus from the educated clergy of a city such as Milan . |
| 5 | So it might seem as if Snow could lie purring in his grave , and as if the two cultures were coming together . |
| 6 | It also included an interview with fisheries biologist Hans Hultberg , which had been edited to make it seem as if liming was a perfect answer to acidified salmon rivers . |
| 7 | Certain it is , in stormy weather , from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill , and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have weathered storms quite as real , — long sickness , pinching poverty , and mayhap , in some cases , that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic , a disinclination to regular work ; and their present lot is one of storms , — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors , and the wintry blasts without ; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan . |
| 8 | In this state it can seem as if there is a drive not to know too much about the other person . |
| 9 | For men , it can seem as if the reverse is true . |
| 10 | He 'd wanted to drive until anything he remembered would seem as if it had happened to someone else . |
| 11 | But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her . |
| 12 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 13 | She will recognize your being , and it may seem as if the light she is shining is a cold one at times . |
| 14 | It did not seem as if there were bones broken , despite the height of the fall . |
| 15 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 16 | In any case , virtually no heterosexual feminists have an analysis of heterosexism , which would enable them to deny they are lesbians without making it seem as if they are happy not to be . |
| 17 | Sometimes it can seem as if it was yesterday . |
| 18 | A gap of half a century is undeniably a lengthy one , but to guests in the reborn Langham , it may well seem as if time has stood still . |
| 19 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 20 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 21 | At first glance , it might seem as if Althusser himself gave up history and tried science instead . |
| 22 | Similarly , the goblin of the night which is ‘ Scarbo ’ does n't produce every necessary frisson , one left- hand major second is misread at 0 ‘ 53 ’ and when it recurs later , and it does n't seem as if the soft pedal is used , as marked , for the final page , which is too loud generally . |
| 23 | That may make it seem as if we thought each had specific dates and a definite content . |
| 24 | It did n't read like some pick-up place where everyone went off together for topless holidays ; nor did it make it seem as if it was your fault for not having a social life . |
| 25 | The author makes it seem as if in this euphemistic world , tradesmen , dealers — men of the flesh — have refined themselves out of existence , and have imparted their qualities to the shop itself , its furniture and fittings , in a general ambience of discretion . |
| 26 | It would seem as if people were ready to write about every aspect of higher education — its aims , policies , governance , finance , organization , staff , students — except the one thing that gives all these their raison d'être . |
| 27 | The white half-mask he wore made it seem as if the upper part of his face had been skinned . |
| 28 | I was getting used to the odd feeling of distance , which made it seem as if it was all about someone else , but it was alarming to see how most of the articles highlighted the love-story angle , rather than the conditions in which John was held or the reasons I 'd given as to why the Government should be doing more . |
| 29 | The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident . |
| 30 | He 'll try to make it seem as if the change — the strengthening of their position — comes from within the Ping Tiao . ’ |