Example sentences of "it often seem that " in BNC.

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1 In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 .
2 Before I met Maureen , it often seemed that for someone like myself , who was and is very interested in learning about all aspects of bird life , there was nowhere to go except libraries .
3 In addition , it often seems that police culture possesses a dramaturgical or melodramatic inflexion , as the increasingly autocratic operational style is brought to bear in contests with new generations of dissenting workers , political radicals , and the largely dispossessed criminal underclass .
4 It often seems that the New Ager has invented his ‘ science ’ independently of any authority except the optimistic inner influences , and that of lumps of matter whizzing through space .
5 It often seems that there are as many ways of reading hands as there are palmists .
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