Example sentences of "seemed certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | What remained of Belfast 's mudflats seemed certain to be diminished by unrestricted dumping . |
| 2 | She was garnering awards from Japan to Israel and Ireland , embarking on a movie career that seemed certain to lead to Hollywood stardom — she had even achieved the final confirmation of her status as a member of the élite band entitled to call themselves superstars , a wax image of herself at Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 3 | It seemed certain to boost his reputation as a survivor and to stifle growing discontent with his autocratic leadership . |
| 4 | Although the Tory majority of 101 secured in 1987 was slashed to under 20 and possibly into single figures , Mr Major seemed certain to be back in Downing Street this morning . |
| 5 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 6 | After lengthy manoeuvring Short won a second pawn and seemed certain to win . |
| 7 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 8 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 9 | Oleg Sergueev ran clear and seemed certain to score . |
| 10 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 11 | Rarely had they been left alone together for any length of time , but one thing now seemed certain . |
| 12 | On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana . |
| 13 | There was a general election pending at this time and it seemed certain we should lose it . |
| 14 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 15 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 16 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 17 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 18 | The paper had originally intended to base itself in London , where large-scale funding from GLEB and the GLC seemed certain under the banner of creating jobs . |
| 19 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 20 | Given the demands of the United Kingdom 's aging population and the tendency of health care costs to rise , it seemed certain to some doctors that governments ' policies in this area would contain an appreciable element of cost containment . |
| 21 | As the war in Europe reached its last stages , the task of making a lasting peace seemed certain to be complicated by the differences of policy , already apparent , between the Western Allies and the USSR . |
| 22 | It seemed certain that the dead man in the park had attacked the killer and had left his mark — many people mentioned a cut and a badly bloodstained face . |
| 23 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 24 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 25 | It seemed certain that nothing would alter the situation . |
| 26 | The operation was running smoothly as the yacht rounded the North Foreland when it seemed certain that a landing would be made somewhere in the Thames Estuary . |
| 27 | Besides Heath , Maudling and Macleod , who seemed certain runners , Hogg , Soames and Peter Thorneycroft were also expected , at one moment or another , to let their names go forward . |
| 28 | His election as president seemed certain , even before the Radicals fell into disarray with Mr Sourrouille 's resignation . |
| 29 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 30 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |