Example sentences of "and it [verb] likely " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
2 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
3 | ‘ 'Er ’ was apparently Rose 's ma , and it seemed likely from Rose 's hints and sniffs that all the children had different dads , which , looking at Ma Bailey , fat , defeated and unlovely , Sally-Anne found difficult to believe . |
4 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
5 | However , final planning permission may delay the start of work and it seems likely that the club 's Pizza Express National League team will continue to play their home matches at Feltham at least until Christmas . |
6 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
7 | There are small helically-coiled shells present even in Cambrian rocks , and it seems likely that the gastropods diverged from the other molluscs late in the Precambrian . |
8 | Some bacteria , such as the one that causes syphilis , have flagellae ; and it seems likely that flagellae and cilia originated as parasitic bacteria which , instead of causing disease , remained and became incorporated into the cell as the relationship was mutually beneficial . |
9 | The overall costs of implementing RMI are also beginning to be a worry and it seems likely that there will be a slowing down of large-scale implementation with a preference being given to smaller more gradualistic approaches to providing information needs . |
10 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
11 | Arrivals have frequently been noted at the coast during this period , and it seems likely that such movements are of birds going to favoured areas to moult . |
12 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
13 | Most ma–or roads now have cycle facilities and it seems likely that these have had a positive effect on the road safety of cyclists . |
14 | The barn was on a main road , and it seems likely that one of the adults was killed and the other went off in search of another mate . |
15 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
16 | From their shapes , they were apparently copied from wooden originals , and it seems likely that the clay coffins are really copies in clay of wooden clothes-chests . |
17 | Evidence from the wear patterns of teeth shows that they also shared similar diets of soft fruit and young leaves , and it seems likely that the various species operated within similar ecological constraints , although there is evidence of some ecological diversification in contemporaneous hominoids both in diet , for example the more folivorous Rangwapithecus , and in locomotion , for example the long-limbed Dendropithecus . |
18 | It appears , therefore , that synaptogenic mechanisms have been strongly conserved and it seems likely that similar molecular and genetic pathways control these interactions in Drosophila and other organisms . |
19 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
20 | But EC politicians are meeting later this month to discuss maternity rights and it seems likely that Britain will be forced to bring in a more generous package . |
21 | On a less theoretical level , it is also true that his expressions of anti-semitism occur in the Twenties or just before , when he was inclined to make misogynistic remarks also ; it was a period when his own personality threatened to break apart , and it seems likely that his distrust of Jews and women was the sign of an uneasy and vulnerable temperament in which aggression and insecurity were compounded . |
22 | Again , validity needs to be considered , and it seems likely that the length of 2.8 cm can be obtained by using a whole number strategy which avoids the use of decimal concepts . |
23 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
24 | When the noises were recorded , it was found that much of the call was at frequencies too low for us to hear , and it seems likely that the females were responding to this infrasound . |
25 | The market suffers from a number of imperfections , however , and it seems likely that these have a significant limiting effect on its disciplinary power . |
26 | Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale . |
27 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
28 | The London and South East Regional Planning Conference ( SERPLAN ) regularly monitor trends and it seems likely that an adequate supply of building land is available , but only on the basis of five-year forecasts . |
29 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
30 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |