Example sentences of "it seems as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems as though the pilot is only worrying about his cockpit getting through and forgets the wings . |
| 2 | As with much else in Lewis 's life , it seems as though there was a Providence in its journey , for it landed on the desk of a man celled Charles Williams . |
| 3 | But from Hobbes 's description it seems as though its very contemplation filled him with a trembling , timorous fear . |
| 4 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 5 | It seems as though a slammed door would level the city . |
| 6 | Decimus Burton ( 1800–81 ) , who it seems as John Nash 's protégé had designed various royal and governmental works , was commissioned in 1836 to prepare plans for rebuilding . |
| 7 | It has already changed the pattern of life in America , and it seems as though our turn has now arrived . |
| 8 | First , it seems as though we can identify a locally based form of politics , arising from local social relations and social processes . |
| 9 | It certainly has one of the most well thought-out texts , and it seems as though Handel , although no great literary expert , always responded well to libretti of quality . |
| 10 | Now it seems as though we ca n't build anything anywhere . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it seems as though Greg arranged the accident in order to fake his own death . |
| 12 | It seems as though this is what has kept all those trekkies going for decades . |
| 13 | But it seems as though most of the problems and dangers with E come from the underground manner in which it is supplied . |
| 14 | Almost every month it seems as though some sad parent on the local news is bemoaning the loss of their teenager who died in this way . |
| 15 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 16 | It seems as though he would n't hurt a fly , except there is an inkling that he could become nasty when he starts to throw fruit and vegetables at the cat , who is as suspicious of this ‘ foreigner ’ as the natives . |
| 17 | It seems as though we have conquered the traditional infectious diseases only to be assaulted by new ones . |
| 18 | Even when you see a stage performance of hypnotism and it seems as though the ‘ unwilling ’ subjects are being made to act against their will , that is not really the case . |
| 19 | But it seems as though animals show the same preferences . |
| 20 | In keeping with the career pattern of your chart , it seems as though money will come in from a variety of sources . |
| 21 | It seems as though every area of your life is poised for some new influences , but because of your cautious nature and natural attachment to the past , you may feel somewhat overwhelmed by the rush of momentous events . |
| 22 | It seems as though you may run into opposition , either from the powers that be or the effects of economic cutbacks , and you may have to wait until November before this pattern changes . |
| 23 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 24 | It seems as though he 's got everything and knows everybody . |
| 25 | But now , at long last , it seems as though this might be ending : the much vaunted triumph of the West may be faltering in this , its first confrontation with a region and a group of peoples who are as confident and as proud — and as rich and powerful — as the Westerners have long been . |
| 26 | It seems as though habitable mountains have grown up precipitously and cancerously from out of the ravaged landscape in defiance of gravity the leveller . |
| 27 | It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength . |
| 28 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 29 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , the place in the world which we know as Africa is actually the place where life came from , where life began , and so it seems as though the people who were the original people of this earth have been planted on to be pariahs , the lowest of the low . |