Example sentences of "it seem [adj] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed certain that the dead man in the park had attacked the killer and had left his mark — many people mentioned a cut and a badly bloodstained face . |
| 2 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 3 | It seemed impossible that the French still hesitated . |
| 4 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |
| 5 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |
| 6 | In 1980 , it seemed unlikely that the elderly Ronald Reagan , lacking in Washington experience and with an insubstantial mandate , would be able to impose his will and his policy preferences on the political system . |
| 7 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 8 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He no longer had men like Harold Nicolson who had accompanied him to Rome , but it seemed likely that the new deputation to Germany might include William Joyce . |
| 11 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 12 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 13 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 14 | For Rolle , because God looks on the heart and not the outward appearance , and judges the will not the deed , it seems self-evident that the contemplative life , seeking to be one with God 's love , must be preferred , because actives are too distracted by what they do . |
| 15 | In monkeys the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus projects exclusively to the prefrontal catex so it seems reasonable that the dorsomedial nucleus projection zone would correspond to prefrontal cortex in rats . |
| 16 | Whilst we can expect a little less controversy , it seems certain that the additional publicity next autumn from an English challenger for the world title is bound to generate a similar upturn and the 1990s may become a golden era for British chess in more ways than one . |
| 17 | The measurements of pressure and temperature do not penetrate beyond about the 1 bar level , but it seems certain that the adiabatic lapse-rate persists to far greater depths . |
| 18 | It seems odd that the Prime Minister should use the same words as us . |
| 19 | On the one hand , it seems appropriate that the great days of verba precativa in imperial constitutions should end with Diocletian , for with Constantine came change : he disposed of formalities of language , and from this point on there was no sense in any test to which wordings should confirm . |
| 20 | It seems surprising that the gravitational force should dominate in the Universe . |
| 21 | If it seems surprising that the same forms of rioting should recur from one place to another over lapses of time , it should be remembered that food rioting was neither an isolated nor a continuous form of popular action . |
| 22 | The recently announced moratorium on new health promotion clinics has put a temporary brake on applications , but it seems probable that the new regulations from next April will encompass stress clinics , although within a cash limited total . |
| 23 | In our patient it seems probable that the low concentrations reflected the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency . |
| 24 | It seems probable that the visiting extra-terrestrial would see ethnic exclusiveness and conflict , xenophobia and fundamentalism as aspects of the same general phenomenon . |
| 25 | It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it seems probable that the scientific spirit , at least as seen by non-scientists , encouraged more critical and liberal attitudes to religion ; this can be seen in the Hibbert Lectures , which began in 1878 . |
| 27 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 28 | But there is another possible kind of explanation , often more powerful , in which some linguistic feature is motivated by principles outside the scope of linguistic theory : for example , it seems possible that the syntactic processes known as island constraints ( Ross , 1967 ) can be explained on the grounds of general psychological principles ( see e.g. Grosu , 1972 ) . |
| 29 | It seems possible that the extensive exposure to the stimuli experienced by the experimental subjects in the first stage of training might have resulted in a latent inhibition effect that would obscure any other source of transfer . |
| 30 | It seems remarkable that the three who remained in France did not abandon their mission following the arrests in Ireland . |