Example sentences of "it seem likely [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed likely that a second ‘ hundred flowers ’ movement was in the offing , thirty years after the original one had ended in disaster for thousands of Chinese intellectuals . |
| 2 | For some countries , including Britain and Spain , it seems likely that a softer , more automatic ERM would be better than both the existing ERM and no ERM at all . |
| 3 | It seems likely that a similar decline will not be allowed to occur in a period of world food shortages , and continued changes along the present lines can be expected . |
| 4 | After 17.00 on weekdays , and on Saturday mornings , mean delivery times show a greater degree of fluctuation than at other periods , and while this may partly be explained in terms of the smallness of the samples from which these mean delivery times were calculated , it seems likely that a major factor was again reduced staffing levels at these periods . |
| 5 | It seems likely that a well-recalled ad is something of a bonus to a brand , but little more than that . |
| 6 | It seems likely that a forty-foot width was regarded as the minimum for an unsurfaced road , allowing for detours as the winter went on , but when scientific roadmaking began these great widths were no longer necessary . |
| 7 | It seems likely that a considerable amount of valuable new research on pronunciation will grow out of the study of discourse . |
| 8 | If it seems likely that a particular march will encounter a large and aggressively hostile opposition , the proper course is for the police to organise in such a way as to protect the marchers against the opposition . |
| 9 | It seems likely that a local commentator is right in thinking that the boycott cost the DUP votes in a subsequent by-election . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it seems likely that a positive function in the evolution of human society has been exercised by envy in that it maintained variations of individual behaviour within tolerable bounds and maintained a mutual bond , policed by envy and the fear of envy , between all the differentiated members of a society . |