Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] seem [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless it seems likely that change was forced on him , as earlier on such ‘ empirical ’ despots as Peter I in Russia and Frederick William I in Prussia , by the need for greater practical efficiency , and to some extent perhaps by an instinctive feeling for rationality , not by theories propounded in Paris . |
2 | Thus it seems likely that examination questions in chemical engineering at degree level will bear certain similarities of form and content , and share certain presuppositions , in institutions throughout the world . |
3 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
4 | Already it seems clear that superantigens are yet another example of microbial pathogens evolving mechanisms to use and subvert the immune response ; we shall hear more of their role in infective and autoimmune disease . |
5 | Even now it seemed incredible that Mark — cynical , idle , sophisticated Mark , had actually joined that file of Catholic students who , during Holy Week , carried a heavy wooden Cross through the public streets and along the open road between London and Our Lady 's shrine at Walsingham . |
6 | Very little is known about what triggers most animal viruses to follow either path ; indeed it seems possible that integration is a random and accidental process that does not occur at any specific sites on the chromosomes . |
7 | Yet it seems clear that Eisenhower acted only when he was convinced that delay or vacillation might prove even more dangerous . |
8 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
9 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
10 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |