Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you get more energy back when two light nuclei fuse than it costs to get them together it would seem that we are bound to win . |
| 2 | The Security Council has wisely ruled out the death penalty , however much it might seem justified as retribution . |
| 3 | On specification alone it would seem to be a logical alternative to an imagesetter for any small to medium volume publishing house who were not obsessed with typographic detail — ie the majority … |
| 4 | So it might seem as if Snow could lie purring in his grave , and as if the two cultures were coming together . |
| 5 | Or so it might seem . |
| 6 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 7 | The invisible college is a more influential community than the visible college ( or so it might seem ) . |
| 8 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 9 | So it would seem that children may assist one parent to care for the other who might otherwise go into a home , but apart from this they have to residential homes for some while caring for and thus avoiding the admission of others , and that these two influences cancel each other out in the statistics . |
| 10 | So it would seem that people in homes where they were free to have a doctor of their own choice were not seen as being more deprived of visits in spite of having fewer of them than people in homes where everyone had the same doctor . |
| 11 | If so it would seem to suggest that we have an absolute rule of conduct or an agreed blue-print of morality to which there can be no exceptions . |
| 12 | So it would seem reasonable to suggest that second language learners might proceed in a similar way ( cf. |
| 13 | The smaller the PC , the greater its appeal — or so it would seem . |
| 14 | So it would seem that the ghost of William Terris will haunt Covent Garden Station whenever he pleases , but the object of his frequent appearances will remain a mystery . |
| 15 | So it would seem that an essential fact which had escaped Lanfranc 's notice had come out in Anselm 's talks with Osbern . |
| 16 | So it would seem , at least . |
| 17 | So it would seem that even a defence may be an abuse of process if it is not based on private rights . |
| 18 | So it would seem logical that the invitation to the lord 's table should be reciprocal , and why is it not ? |
| 19 | So it would seem , but closer examination shows that the earthwork incorporated a good deal of turfwork , which in at least two places was laid on top of a layer of flints . |
| 20 | So it would seem . |
| 21 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 22 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 23 | So it would seem safe to assume that life as a gay priest might be something of a tortured path — if not a contradiction in terms . |
| 24 | After all , trades councils are the local versions of the T U C , and so it would seem appropriate that they get a say at the T U C Congress itself . |
| 25 | And so it may seem that a child , without having learned the technique of using the word ‘ red ’ , might start by learning ‘ That looks red to me ’ ( 418 , 422 ) . |
| 26 | No book which offers an overarching educational theory of higher education can afford to neglect teaching and learning ; or so it must seem . |
| 27 | Adventure might seem exciting , but all too soon it could seem like a prison sentence , especially when it meant living aboard a ship with all manner of rogues and scoundrels . |
| 28 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 29 | Very broadly it would seem that most countries in western and northern Europe have about 4 — 6 per cent of their population aged 65 + resident in some form of institution . |
| 30 | Not a mark on him so it must have been natural causes ; anyway it would seem that he comes back to his old home or sort of stamping ground . |