Example sentences of "it have seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into . |
| 2 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |
| 3 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 4 | In Britain , it has seemed natural to refer to a third guiding principle , fraternity , which derives from the communal or associative traditions of British society . |
| 5 | Theories about perception and knowledge which it has seemed possible to prove or disprove a priori turn out to depend on concealed analogies ; with the exposure of the analogy their foundations collapse . |
| 6 | At times , it has seemed that it was . |
| 7 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 8 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |
| 9 | It was dragged kicking and screaming into Big Bang in 1986 , but since then it has seemed pretty effective , in the main . |
| 10 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 11 | It has seemed a certainty to me from the beginning ; the decision of the Council is tomorrow . |
| 12 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
| 13 | They do no more than show that the legislature has not shrunk , where it has seemed appropriate , from interfering in a greater or lesser degree with the immunities grouped under the title of the right to silence . |
| 14 | Indeed at times it has seemed difficult to see what the newcomers could do to alleviate the resentments they have occasionally caused . |
| 15 | Often it has seemed that there was not too much difference between the major parties . |
| 16 | For example , it has seemed self evident that if less advanced disease has a better prognosis , the earlier the disease is detected , the better the outcome . |
| 17 | The Chopinesque left-hand arpeggios , the repeated chords of Mozart and Beethoven , Strauss 's waltz rhythms , popular song accompaniments ( with bass on the downbeats , chords on the upbeats ) , and so on — all are already so familiar to us that it has seemed superfluous and pedantic to describe them . |
| 18 | In the past decade it has seemed to me , perhaps over-optimistically , that the logic of interaction was taking command over what we teach , and the things that we try to do . |
| 19 | For too long , it has seemed to us , involving the citizen in how public services should be provided has been seen as an optional extra . |
| 20 | ‘ It has seemed like that , ’ he said sombrely , looking off into the distance . |
| 21 | Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up . |
| 22 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 23 | It had seemed an impossible target until yesterday , when Lansink produced his third double clear round in the specified series . |
| 24 | It had seemed , the great choral works excepted , mere mathematics , endless , tedious variations on simple themes , clever , of course , but no more than that . |
| 25 | At the start of the year , it had seemed to be regaining influence . |
| 26 | One scene from the film had remained in her mind : it had seemed to Marie to be more or less her own experience of life . |
| 27 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 28 | To Wilson , it had seemed all of a piece , all part of her own unhappiness , of that weary feeling that nothing mattered , nothing , no amount of effort could alter what was to happen . |
| 29 | Perhaps — it had seemed for a short while — she herself might leave him . |
| 30 | But how excruciatingly real it had seemed . |