Example sentences of "[adv] it seem likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it seems likely that similar factors will in fact be taken into account by the courts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus it seems likely that the winter population and a substantial passage in February and March are largely composed of stellata ; passage of this species continues through April and May , and is then joined by a large movement of arctica ; immer is always a scarce species . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus it seems likely that in the general process of longshore drift under the action of oblique waves , longshore currents and oblique rip currents may help in the movement of the finer material . |
| 8 | Now it seems likely that he will instead miss Ireland 's next match , against England in Dublin on March 28 . |
| 9 | Now it seems likely that he will instead miss Ireland 's next match , against England in Dublin on March 28 . |
| 10 | Overall it seems likely that the existence , speed and intensity-correlated behaviour of QPOs in AGNs will provide severe constraints on models . |
| 11 | Overall it seems likely that about 10 per cent of the population aged 65 + experiences depressive illness of clinical significance ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 12 | If there is undetected contamination in the Esk , then it seems likely that other areas of the west coast are also contaminated without showing up in official statistics , Mr Green says . |
| 13 | If types of industry could be defined more sharply then it seems likely that although by 1970 British industry matched the international pattern , this had occurred as the result of some substantial relative shifts in employment in the UK over the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 14 | Overall then it seems likely that the motivation and commitment which is found among many mature students is a major factor in the success of many students with non-traditional qualifications . |
| 15 | Consequently it seemed likely in early May that Japan would avoid the mandatory trade sanctions which would follow if it were named as an unfair trader under the so-called " Super 301 " clause of the 1988 Trade Act [ see pp. 36925-26 ] . |
| 16 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
| 17 | 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 . |