Example sentences of "seem likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it seem likely that the Irish state would benefit significantly from this goldmine in the west , or indeed any other . |
| 2 | Some people think that a Paget built the manor , but to judge by the monuments in the church ( rebuilt by William Butterfield in 1873 ) it would seem likely that the builder was a ‘ Thomas Bedwell , Gent . ’ , |
| 3 | Curbs on ownership of water buffaloes and other ruminant emitters do not seem likely , nor would it be possible to cover up rice paddies and melting permafrost in the tundra . |
| 4 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 5 | The biggest flaw in Mr Chandler 's argument is that it applies more readily to industries where fast changes in technology do not seem likely . |
| 6 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 7 | On the basis of the MAFF-DoE memo this would seem likely to include the farming and fertiliser industries , and would give the Ministry of Agriculture almost total control over the policy . |
| 8 | Since land prices , which are related to land availability , are , in general , rising it would seem likely that renting would increase . |
| 9 | I will stand ready to reinforce your attack , should you seem likely to fail . ’ |
| 10 | What does , however , seem likely is that the great marketing operation for citizenship education , like that of citizenship before it , has involved the promotion of a product which its advertisers do not fully comprehend . |
| 11 | New synthetic chemicals and new antibiotics have been discovered and brought into use , but at present ( 1990 ) it does not seem likely that tuberculosis will be eradicated simply by the discovery of effective drugs . |
| 12 | However , it does seem likely that his father 's views influenced him even so early . |
| 13 | Of course it may be that she returned here with the deceased last night and he went out again on his own , but it does n't seem likely . ’ |
| 14 | Once , however , the National Curriculum entitlement is in place it does not seem likely that parents will welcome any ‘ experiment ’ . |
| 15 | Since the main function of bone collecting by porcupines seems to keep their incisors in good condition rather than as food , it does not seem likely that small mammal bone could serve any useful purpose from the porcupine 's point of view . |
| 16 | On the whole this does not seem likely . |
| 17 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 18 | This does n't seem likely . |
| 19 | ‘ Were they just staying in their cabins , working in isolation and without equipment , which does n't seem likely , or what other part of the ship did they meet in ? ’ |
| 20 | It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end . |
| 21 | ‘ Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom heavily , ‘ does it seem likely to you that I would be standing here in the middle of a raging inferno , casually rounding up all you girls ? ’ |
| 22 | What does seem likely , at least in part , is that a practice which began in the Sixties — distinguishing themselves from their left-leaning peers through a pose of premature reactionism — has since become an indistinguishable part of their character . |
| 23 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 24 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 25 | Maybe Woody , Mia and Soon-Yi will announce that the whole business is a publicity stunt for the movie , but somehow that does n't seem likely . |
| 26 | What does seem likely is that MASSMoCA 's commissioners will petition the governor to release funds incrementally to allow construction to begin . |
| 27 | In the light of industry 's past performance such adjustment does not seem likely . |
| 28 | Contradictions which might seem likely to undermine the system have often the reverse effect . |
| 29 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 30 | Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed . |