Example sentences of "it [adv] seem as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that , I do n't know , it just seemed as if you were looking at me like |
| 2 | until it just seems as if it 's an impossible task |
| 3 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 4 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 5 | But when he does eventually ‘ learn ’ the concept , they concede that ‘ Even now it still seems as if his sense of identity is quite different from ours ’ ( 17 ) . |
| 6 | Erm so it always seemed as if something else was the trigger for friendships . |
| 7 | It also seemed as if somebody up there had decided to have a laugh at the expense of an arguably premature rave by yours truly . |
| 8 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 9 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 10 | It really seemed as if Ross had been determined to make sure the day was a success . |
| 11 | It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends . |
| 12 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 13 | It almost seemed as if it was moving further away with each stride . |
| 14 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |
| 15 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 16 | I mean , it almost seems as if things were meant to turn out like this what do you think ? ’ |
| 17 | In addition , it sometimes seems as if some tone-units ( though only a small number ) contain not one but two tonic syllables , almost always with the first syllable having a fall on it and the other a rise . |
| 18 | It certainly seemed as if his friend had snapped the bones of both his wings . |