Example sentences of "seem possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party spokeswoman , Lourdes Ortiz , remarked : ‘ It does n't seem possible , but the workers may vote again for the Socialist machine . ’ |
| 2 | It does seem possible to act on desires in a free , and relatively deliberate , way . |
| 3 | It does not seem possible to explain away the legal rights and duties of a body as being merely the rights and duties of the individuals composing it ; and |
| 4 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 5 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 6 | His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible . |
| 7 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 8 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 9 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 10 | But it does n't seem possible , ’ she said , feeling dazed . |
| 11 | It did not seem possible . |
| 12 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 13 | On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . |
| 14 | It did n't seem possible that there was a war . |
| 15 | ‘ Three months ago it did not seem possible that we could take the Championship again but we never gave up . |
| 16 | It may , therefore , be more productive to work within the limitations imposed by the data than to continue to explore art-styles as a root to chronological precision when this does not seem possible because of the unknown number of unknown variables . |
| 17 | In this and the following story , religious belief played a significant part in what does , or does not seem possible for the client to accept . |
| 18 | They have a whole scene that makes it seem possible to write songs all the time and really , really enjoy it . ’ |
| 19 | But , as we have just said , it usually does n't seem possible to do anything about the job . |
| 20 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 21 | Indeed it is its very innateness , given sufficient divergence between different languages , that make such counterexamples seem possible . |
| 22 | Especially for a soul like his , that loved the melting season , when the rise of sap and sun made all things seem possible . |
| 23 | But it differs in not talking about reasons ; and this is a virtue because it does seem possible that there should be justified belief without reasons . |
| 24 | It did n't seem possible . |
| 25 | It did n't seem possible for her love to deepen and grow , but it did . |
| 26 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 27 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 28 | Thus , as neutrophils are normal constituents of blood it would seem possible that the faecal excretion of indium-111 simply reflected non-specific intestinal bleeding or oozing ( for example , vascular injury due to eroding ulcers ) . |
| 29 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 30 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |