Example sentences of "it seem likely [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV .
2 But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years .
3 It seems likely that in glacial periods reefs would only have been karstified and not destroyed as envisaged by Daly .
4 Therefore , it seems likely that in coeliac disease extracellular cyclic nucleotide concentrations may reflect the abnormally high cAMP and cGMP content of mucosa from the small intestine .
5 It seems likely that in most species these two selection pressures interact to produce a compromise weighted according to ( a ) the particular foraging requirements of a species in a given habitat and ( b ) alternative means of protection from whatever predators may be present .
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