Example sentences of "it [adv] seem [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
2 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
3 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
4 | IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again . |
5 | It also seems that unemployment , the chief cause of poverty during the inter-war period , resulted in a different outlook from that induced by pre-World War I poverty , which was caused primarily by low wages . |
6 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
7 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
8 | In contrast , it now seems good law that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher protects all interests including the interest of a non-occupier , e. g . |
9 | It now seems that tubercle bacilli cause human disease because of their ability to induce necrotic tissue reactions , analogous to the Koch phenomenon in the guinea pig , rather than protective reactions . |
10 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
11 | But it certainly seemed that way . |
12 | It certainly seemed that way to me . |
13 | It therefore seems that sex differences in health status are characteristic of the whole of the lifecourse . |
14 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |