Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [verb] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Here it seems hard to say that the party seeking to rely on the exemption clause is contracting on his own written standard terms . |
| 2 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 3 | It seems natural to assert that the extent to which managers deviate from owners ' interests will depend upon the degree of scope available to them and the degree to which they are constrained . |
| 4 | Given that this same five-part texture is used for all the dances of this ballet , it seems reasonable to conclude that a string band must have formed the basis of the instrumental ensemble . |
| 5 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 6 | Whatever the disagreements , it seems reasonable to say that the period circa 1890–1914 witnessed ‘ an unprecedented advance of machine technique and of mechanisation generally and automatism in particular ’ . |
| 7 | It therefore seems reasonable to suppose that the function of the brain is to mediate these more flexible links between stimuli and responses . |
| 8 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 9 | Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization . |
| 10 | In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present . |
| 11 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 12 | Even then , it seems reasonable to believe that the number of beneficiaries of such spillovers is limited . |
| 13 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 14 | In effect , it seems safe to conclude that the performance of feudal services by the King of England as duke of Aquitaine and count of Ponthieu was very largely a non-issue . |
| 15 | It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived . |
| 16 | Because of this policy , ‘ the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , by reason of its many limitations and exceptions , today seldom forms the basis of a successful claim in the courts ’ and it seems fair to remark that the rule ‘ has hardly been taken seriously by modern English courts . ’ |
| 17 | None the less , it seems plausible to suppose that the loss of the OR in the pre-exposed group might retard the formation of a light-food association simply because it reduces the likelihood that these subjects will see the light at the start of conditioning . |
| 18 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 19 | It becomes possible to feel that a compromise has been reached . |