Example sentences of "as it seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , the very idea of politics became degraded and execrated in the minds of the citizens , as it seemed to them synonymous with lawlessness , mendacity and opportunism . ’ |
| 2 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 3 | As it seemed to be fairly certain that the children would now not come that way and the main rides need be watched no longer , the Leader went back and called the thin man in . |
| 4 | Unbelievable as it seemed to him , she almost looked as if she had been crying . |
| 5 | Even if disaster strikes , as it seemed to for one student of mine who dropped her nearly completed head on the concrete floor and an ear snapped off , do n't let it worry you unduly . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 7 | Carried by some freak of the acoustics of the place or by the mist , Jotan 's voice said as it seemed to Alexei in his ear , ‘ If you move or call out , I shall kill you . ’ |
| 8 | We came in sight of a charming , low white house in the English style ; a laughing house , as it seemed to me . |
| 9 | Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again , not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be ? |
| 10 | I would have the gearbox checked out as it seems to be at fault . |
| 11 | Some readers may get no further than the title of this book suggesting , as it seems to , something austere , authoritarian , Catholic and far removed from their own experience ! |
| 12 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 13 | The moralists — as it seems to many of us who have worried over this question — either shirk the answer or botch it . |
| 14 | This might be an illegitimate birth of some kind , as it seems to be , or possibly just evidence of John and Ann 's first child . |
| 15 | When a mother 's face does not reflect a meaningful world of which the baby is a part — as it seems to me the face of a woman in pain can not — then what results is ‘ a threat of chaos and the baby will organise withdrawal , or will not look except to perceive as a defence . |
| 16 | For the best results , exact control of the adhesion seems to be critical but when this is achieved , as it seems to be in the best natural and artificial composite materials , very excellent combinations of strength and toughness are created . |
| 17 | If this diversity in ethos cuts across any diversity in the objective conditions in which teachers find themselves , as it seems to , then there is reason to doubt the idea that decline in these conditions is the cause of teacher demoralization . |
| 18 | Thus , as it seems to me , the burden of proof under the 1981 Act has shifted to demonstrating why a child with special educational needs should not be educated in an ordinary school with the necessary extra provision . |
| 19 | Here British social anthropologists part company with many of their American colleagues , who give priority to culture and to cultural patterns , underestimating ( as it seems to us ) the social dimension . |
| 20 | have actually mutated themselves in as much as it seems to be that |
| 21 | If knowledge requires more than conditional justification , as it seems to , then the only way to escape the sceptical thrust of the regress argument is to conclude with the foundationalist that some beliefs are justified non-inferentially . |
| 22 | The vegetable oil is important , as it seems to be slightly more viscous than olive oil . |
| 23 | The answer , as it seems to us , must be that the court regarded the enhanced right of silence which common law and statute have traditionally conferred upon a person once he has been charged as providing him , in the language of section 2(13) , with a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ for failing to comply with the requirement . |
| 24 | ‘ This again , as it seems to me , is analogous to unfairly inducing a defendant to confess to an offence , and the short judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal is clearly based upon the maxim nemo debet prodere se ipsum . |
| 25 | That , as it seems to me , was an important feature in the judge 's judgment ; and I think that she was right to attach importance to it . |
| 26 | If , in reliance on the transfer , the building society accepted the legal charge executed by the Hammonds and parted with the £15,000 , an estoppel by representation would , as it seems to me , bar Mr. Steed from denying that the transaction completed by the transfer was a sale . |
| 27 | Underlying this passage , as it seems to me , is Lawrence L.J . 's acceptance of the importance of bringing the rectification case within one or other of the paragraphs of section 82(1) . |
| 28 | So far in this judgment I have been principally concerned to explain why , as it seems to me , the court has not only the power but the inescapable responsibility of deciding , in that specific context , what is to be done in the interests of her welfare . |
| 29 | The position , as it seems to me , is that the legislation , by section [ 8(2) ] , contemplates two possible ways in which guilt or innocence are to be established . |
| 30 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |