Example sentences of "and it seem certain " in BNC.
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1 | There was a general election pending at this time and it seemed certain we should lose it . |
2 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
3 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
4 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
5 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
6 | Two extensions at La Hague are already 18 months behind schedule , and it seems certain that fuel assemblies will have to be packed tighter in the pools . |
7 | The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived . |
8 | Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy . |
9 | Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities . |
10 | ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail . |
11 | After the outbreak of the Reformation crisis , Henry 's overseas ambitions were unabated , and it seems certain that their cost played a major part in prompting the rapacious seizure and subsequent disposal of the monastic lands , the greatest tenurial revolution in English history since the Norman Conquest . |