Example sentences of "[noun sg] it seems [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 2 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
| 3 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 4 | Whatever the future of the ferry industry it seems clear that the Channel ports are bound to suffer sharp job losses in the short term . |
| 5 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 6 | WITHOUT wishing to cash in on the latest Royal marital rift it seems right to impart the information that some cartoons depicting the unfortunate pair have gone on sale in their adoptive city . |
| 7 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 8 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 9 | However , once one acknowledges Jackson 's involvement with this period it seems important to move on . |
| 10 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 11 | Whatever the outcome it seems absurd that having supposedly wiped the poll tax off the political agenda , ministers are still saddled with it , Darlington council is still saddled with imposing it and , worst of all , ordinary people are still saddled with paying it . |
| 12 | Although the Church of the period lamented Charles ' sexual vigour and lack of suppressive morality , to the modern imagination it seems remarkable that he could rule a vast empire and still have time to devote to three concubines . |
| 13 | By some mysterious alchemy it seems possible to drink two or more cups of the mellow cappuccino or caffe crema without suffering the jangle of caffeine overload . |
| 14 | On such a beautiful day it seems sad to sit in the dank , scruffy room . |
| 15 | In our day it seems incredible that the landscape was at one time of no consideration to artists — and maybe the people in it . |
| 16 | ‘ In the cold light of day it seems incredible that I toppled to my knees in so abject a manner . |
| 17 | Although the International Law Commission did not consider directly the liability of a member State for the acts of an international organisation it seems likely that these two requirements would nevertheless be applicable . |
| 18 | Because the computers on which most desktop publishing software runs are capable of displaying colour it seems logical to the software developer that they should introduce colour into their desktop publishing programs . |
| 19 | In the season of goodwill it seems appropriate to contemplate a fungus that makes a good living out of parasitising insects ; but it is so mild-mannered that its hosts ( and most biologists ) are hardly aware of its existence |
| 20 | But six weeks without a lamp it seems ridiculous does n't it ? |
| 21 | On the whole it seems difficult to believe they are very important . |
| 22 | On the whole it seems likely that the Channel Tunnel will have a minor regional impact in its own right although it could bring short term benefits to depressed areas through , for example , the awarding of Tunnel-related contracts . |
| 23 | None of the remaining small proprietors of Empingham had other holdings in Rutland , and on the whole it seems unlikely that their interests extended beyond its boundary . |
| 24 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | In this respect it seems unlikely that successive governments were given the opportunity to return to normalcy in the manner which they wished . |
| 27 | But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed . |
| 28 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 29 | However , as the conclusions are based on the minutiae of craftsmanship it seems likely that Leigh has come closest to identifying the work of individuals . |
| 30 | In his poem it seems related to modern city life by both ‘ interpenetration and metamorphosis ’ . |