Example sentences of "it seems [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 2 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 3 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 4 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 5 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 6 | AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad . |
| 7 | Other factors such as the personal and public importance of the event are equally likely to be of significance and it seems inappropriate to regard such memories as providing evidence for a general enhancement of memory related to increased arousal or emotion . |
| 8 | So far , however , as working underground is concerned , it seems safe to generalise that adult female labour was never widespread and was in decline in the later eighteenth century . |
| 9 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 10 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 11 | Not only are the external stakeholders different parties , needing a different rational analysis to justify the decision , but it seems important to convince that group of stakeholders that managers have taken their interests fully into account in the internal negotiation process . |
| 12 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |