Example sentences of "seems [adj] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems odd that the Prime Minister should use the same words as us . |
| 2 | For Rolle , because God looks on the heart and not the outward appearance , and judges the will not the deed , it seems self-evident that the contemplative life , seeking to be one with God 's love , must be preferred , because actives are too distracted by what they do . |
| 3 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 4 | It seems possible that the extensive exposure to the stimuli experienced by the experimental subjects in the first stage of training might have resulted in a latent inhibition effect that would obscure any other source of transfer . |
| 5 | It seems clear that a wide range of liaisons , some permanent , others later resolved one way or the other , existed in both rural and urban areas . |
| 6 | Distinguishing between a multiplicity of variables in accounting for policy variations is , of course , a hazardous exercise , but despite the methodological difficulties it seems clear that a simple agency model , with local authorities implementing national policies with little or no discretion , is far from accurate . |
| 7 | For my part , it seems clear that a viable distinction can be made between economic growth ( measured on such criteria as GNP per capita , proportion of the labour force engaged in industry , and the proportion of manufactured goods in total exports ) and development , which has somewhat wider social and political implications . |
| 8 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 9 | In any event , it seems clear that the follow-on loan is generally bad for consumers , as it restricts their potential credit choice by binding them even more firmly into one type of weekly-collection credit . |
| 10 | Therefore it seems clear that the real issue is neither closure nor business as usual . |
| 11 | Although Lord Cairns regarded the principles applicable as extremely simple , it seems clear that the common law was faced by a new and important problem which could not be solved by merely applying the existing authorities . |
| 12 | Unless we do live in an age of miracles , it seems unavoidable that the current account deficit this year will be about £20bn , an unenviable record . |
| 13 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 14 | It seems inevitable that the social profile of lawyers is going to be markedly different from that of society at large because the social profile of persons attaining the level of educational achievement required for admission to higher education does not itself correspond with that of the whole community . |
| 15 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |
| 16 | It seems inevitable that the flattening process will continue and that middle managers will continue to be squeezed . |
| 17 | It seems inevitable that the flattening process will continue and that middle managers will continue to be squeezed . |
| 18 | Given these circumstances it seems remarkable that the proposed tax cut made any significant headway at all , but it had one enormously important advantage — the whole hearted support of Ronald Reagan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It seems likely that a well-recalled ad is something of a bonus to a brand , but little more than that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It seems likely that a considerable amount of valuable new research on pronunciation will grow out of the study of discourse . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It seems likely that a local commentator is right in thinking that the boycott cost the DUP votes in a subsequent by-election . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The London and South East Regional Planning Conference ( SERPLAN ) regularly monitor trends and it seems likely that an adequate supply of building land is available , but only on the basis of five-year forecasts . |
| 28 | It seems likely that the anti-neutrophil antibody found in PSC is an epiphenomenon . |
| 29 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 30 | In the absence of any significant anti-secretory effects , it seems likely that the beneficial action of cisapride reported in this study results from its prokinetic qualities , which might enhance the clearance of acidic gastric effluent from the bulb , and thereby reduce its duration of contact with the duodenal mucosa . |