Example sentences of "it seems [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seems that Parliament accepted this recommendation , although I doubt whether blood donation will create any problem as a ‘ Gillick competent ’ minor of any age would be able to give consent under the common law . |
| 32 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 33 | In terms of the dictum in Lord Roskill 's speech in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 , Parliament had otherwise ordained with regard to recklessness in s.47 — after Spratt it seems that Parliament can otherwise ordain without expressing such a wish . |
| 34 | It seems that union members have learned their lesson after they allowed Ronald Reagan to break the air traffic controllers in the early Eighties . |
| 35 | It seems that education is not even essential to happiness . |
| 36 | It seems that fossil dolphins , like living odontocetes , used echolocation to navigate and Find prey . |
| 37 | As for the Dukes , it seems that fate having struck once in the case of Sarah , was disinclined to give up . |
| 38 | Whilst it may seem a far cry from the appalling civil war that has torn Yugoslavia apart or the collapse of the Soviet Union into an uneasy Commonwealth of Independent States , it seems that sport , and rugby in particular , can play its part in preventing the exaggeration and exploitation of nationalist feeling on international occasions . |
| 39 | It seems that type ( a ) concerns cases where more than one consonant precedes the weak syllable in question , and type ( b ) where there is only one consonant preceding . |
| 40 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 41 | It seems that writing and translating is temporarily effective , or at least that the Beggar 's use for an introduction to the poem is of no further service , because no further meetings between them are recorded . |
| 42 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 43 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 44 | It seems that BSL also falls within the class of languages which demonstrate the use of imaginal processes in their construction . |
| 45 | It seems that key ( the part of the pitch range used ) is important in signalling information about conversational interaction . |
| 46 | Whatever the protests , it seems that Hospital 's days are numbered . |
| 47 | It seems that rubbish left in a skip belongs to the skip-owner and rubbish in dustbins belongs to the local authority . |
| 48 | With the unpredictability of fashion , it seems that sensitivity has replaced brains or athletic ability as the quality all boys should aim at . |
| 49 | Finally , it seems that attempt are being made in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands to create a more positive image and role for residential care ( see National Institute of Social Work , 1988 ) . |
| 50 | However , it seems that deflation , though a possible cause , is only one of several possible formative processes ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) of hamada , which is usually residual or near-residual in origin , and reg , which is a surface of finer gravel , often underlain by a soil profile , transported from elsewhere . |
| 51 | It seems that bioaccumulation by microorganisms of uranium and other metals could be a relatively modern feature . |
| 52 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 53 | It seems that potency level is as much to do with satisfying the need of the practitioner to feel that they are doing something as being a systematic deductive process ! |
| 54 | From the bidding so far it seems that East is sitting over North with a strong and long diamond holding . |
| 55 | It seems that yarn can be spun in two ways , one with ‘ S ’ twist and the other ‘ Z ’ twist . |
| 56 | It seems that fanaticism does not need to be fuelled by credulity , at least about dreaming . |
| 57 | It seems that Grandfather either found , or perhaps made , a hole in the floorboards . |
| 58 | As this book goes to print , it seems that consumer pressure has finally won the day and forced a re-evaluation of corporate policy by the major US tuna canners . |
| 59 | It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals . |
| 60 | Sometimes it seems that death might be … ’ |