The phrase "as it often seems" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a perception or belief that may not necessarily reflect reality, often implying that appearances can be misleading.
Example: "The situation appears dire, as it often seems, but there may be solutions we haven't considered yet."
Alternatives: "as it frequently appears" or "as it commonly looks".
Just as "Down and Dirty Pictures" was being shipped to bookstores, there were signs that today's show business establishment, for all its might, is not as impregnable as it often seems.
The space behind the picture plane is shallow and ambiguous, as it often seems with Chardin.
Yet Haut-Bailly came through with an excellent Pessac-Léognan, as it often seems to in difficult years.
IT was a blustery day in Washington on Jan . 20 , 2009as it often seems to be on the day of a presidential inauguration.
Actually, its satire was sharp, simply imagining what might happen if America just gave up, as it often seems to be on the verge of doing.
"I remember calling my mum from a phone box outside," she says, her voice on the edge of laughter, as it often seems to be.
Largely because he was courting Britain and (as it often seemed at the time) its proxy, apartheid South Africa, Banda would never have tolerated such bare-faced cheek at the former colonial power as indicated by the Zimbabwean poster.
Weaknesses in technology, haphazard workmanship and a lot of bad luck kept the Russian Navy from being as powerful as it often seemed to be, even during its glory days in the cold war.
It's more difficult to tell with Oasis as it often seemed that Noel Gallagher was deliberately provoking listeners.
When the situation devolved into rape, as it often seemed to, many of the children were too intimidated, scared by threats, or bewildered to report what was happening to them.
As an entrepreneur, it often seems that you give up many of the benefits associated with America's large corporations.
