Example sentences of "but it [adv] seem [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it also seemed that the Treasury had wanted to forget about the competition , as three days later Hall sent them a long and detailed reminder about its progress . |
| 2 | But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know if you 've heard , but it rather seems that the police suspect one of the lecturers at the college of killing her , ’ said Melissa . |
| 4 | But it now seems that people completely unknown to me , absolute strangers , have been giving me what my mother used to call ‘ old-fashioned looks ’ or furtive , sidelong glances . |
| 5 | The meaning of this phrase was never very clear , but it now seems that whatever it meant , the availability of these two remedies is not limited in this way . |
| 6 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |