Example sentences of "it seem that [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 2 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 3 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 4 | Normally , banks are unwilling to use their funds for financing enterprises in other republics and provinces , but it seems that in this case the banks in the more prosperous parts of Yugoslavia had funds in excess of the amounts they were permitted to use for giving credits to their own customers ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 5 | However , for both choices of verb , one of the reference candidates is much more acceptable than the other , and so it seems that in this case , only a weak preference should be imposed , with reasoning expected to make the decision . |
| 6 | It seems that in this respect the governors themselves considered the appraisal principally from the point of view of trying to bring about improvements for the school . |
| 7 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 8 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |