Example sentences of "seem [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem that the gal has gone and done a duet with REM mainman MICHAEL STIPE which is fetchingly entitled ‘ Trout ’ . |
| 2 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 3 | It would seem that the rationale behind this agenda is that ordinary people who make their own decisions , built on their own experience , who create their own pressure groups , their own education and their own work are dangerous and must be marginalised . |
| 4 | With the South American championship trophy on the sideboard and the side safely through to next summer 's World Cup finals , it would seem that the Lazaroni system has worked pretty well so far . |
| 5 | It would seem that the consensus of legal opinion , at least in Britain , is still that the position has not yet been reached where the British Parliament would be constitutionally prohibited from severing or amending Britain 's commitment to the Treaty of Rome — though that position is now perilously close . |
| 6 | It would seem that the plates which had come together in the Taconian orogeny , with the subduction of a Proto-Atlantic plate and the westerly over-riding of the sedimentary Pile along the line of the Appalachians had now more or less stopped . |
| 7 | It would seem that the attack at Petit-Clamart did play a role , if only to banish lingering reservations . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that there is an implied restraint as between Y and X and between X and Z and it would equally seem that the benefit of the implied covenant between Y and X would pass to Z upon the sale of goodwill . |
| 9 | Though one always has to treat figures such as these with caution , it does seem that the line-out project had considerable success both in terms of a reduction in operator dissatisfaction , reflected in lower turnover and a less rapid increase in absenteeism than other parts of the plant , and in terms of very substantial savings for management because of the increased flexibility of production it gave them . |
| 10 | They claimed that this was an annual event and it does seem that the date coincided with a regular initiation ceremony for new members of their organisation . |
| 11 | It would seem that the date of the invention of the mechanical clock is probably some time between 1280 and 1300 . |
| 12 | It would seem that the originators of atonality believed that their music was really completely non-tonal , but by now it can be seen that atonality is really an obscuring of tonalities in varying degrees . |
| 13 | In short , it would seem that the relationship must have evolved over and over again . |
| 14 | In principle , it would seem that the performance of a genetic algorithm may depend significantly on the order of the basic data in each string . |
| 15 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 16 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
| 17 | It would seem that the mischief was started by a Jamaican radio commentator , who suggested that as Jackman had coached in South Africa the Guyanese government was contravening the Gleneagles agreement by admitting him . |
| 18 | The Basques went into fishing , navigation , and finally into iron ; the Caracas Company that developed Venezuela in the eighteenth century was a Basque concern , the Economic Societies were a Basque invention and it would seem that the Basques were the best-read Spaniards of the late eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Although it may seem that the developments were exclusively within geomorphology this was not the case , because environmental reconstruction was increasingly shown to be dependent upon knowledge of the ways in which the soils and sediments as well as the surface morphology related to past systems of vegetation and to patterns of climate . |
| 20 | It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on . |
| 21 | Although it might seem that the advantage was heavily enough with me , ensconced behind a swivel-gun , still there was that memory of improved musculature , of fantastic jumps and fast runs , of irascibility coupled with power . |
| 22 | It would seem that the choice of approach is irrelevant because the ethologists are , eventually , going to have to start explaining why particular parts of the brain are involved in behaviours like sex or hunting and that will involve ascribing psychological subprocesses to them . |
| 23 | Our quarrel is with the notion that underpins it , namely that methods are atheoretical which makes it seem that the choice of a research method is governed by technical criteria . |
| 24 | Since a plan is a process of deliberate choice and decision , it would seem that the output could never be called unnatural ; for in a sense the whole process is unnatural ( if contrasted with unplanned evolution ) . |
| 25 | Despite Buckley 's reluctance to play up the siege of Derry as a key myth and his preference for general categories of interpretation derived from various historical experiences , it does seem that the siege has particular significance . |
| 26 | And it would seem that the park and ride service and something like the parks and the Robin Hood line would transport a lot of people . |
| 27 | It does seem that the inspection provided a dimension in the appraisal process which otherwise would have been lacking . |
| 28 | Certainly it would seem that the FAA and McDonnell Douglas did not appreciate the significance of the Vanguard accident when considering the NTSB recommendations on the Windsor accident even though the report was available to them . |
| 29 | Overall British backing for the relationship was apparently marginally less in 1963 ( 67 per cent ) than in 1952 , though when allowance has been made for differences in the questions asked it would seem that the proportion who were strongly pro-American had actually increased . |
| 30 | it would seem that the economics of the socially approved tobacco and alcohol industries means that we have to accept 42,000 deaths annually from cigarettes , and the cost to society of 50,000 alcoholics . |