Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that decades of national decline had been reversed by Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 2 | It seemed that boys were entrusted with the majority of off-task or on-task jobs , including taking absence slips to the office . |
| 3 | Nutty switched her attention once more to the deep end , where it seemed that Nails was giving Jazz a compulsory lesson in turns . |
| 4 | The failure to resolve Germany 's future added to Europe 's economic problems and it seemed that Communists in France and Italy might exploit the consequent social discontent in order to seize power . |
| 5 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 6 | During the Cold War it seemed that aliens , like communists , were poised to invade the West . |
| 7 | It seemed that lessons had been learned from the protectionism of the inter-war period . |
| 8 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 9 | With so many memories already jostling in his mind , it seemed that weeks had passed since the killing . |
| 10 | Perhaps I just had n't noticed before , but now that I did , it seemed that funerals , and allied subjects , were very much the in thing . |
| 11 | It seemed that mortalities were the norm and survivals were very rare . |
| 12 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 13 | In the case of the morning papers , it seems that papers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph are much more difficult than their Swedish counterparts . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems that reports of my breath have been greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 15 | A Midland-based company , British Contact Sports Supplies , is currently trying to make the suit knife- and bullet-proof and , although no one from the Met Police could confirm or deny the rumours , it seems that plans may be afoot for them to adopt the suit in the future |
| 16 | To sum up : It seems that particles can fall into black holes that then evaporate and disappear from our region of the universe . |
| 17 | It seems that drop-outs at this early stage have remained a serious problem , particularly in rural areas , though there has been some improvement in the retention rates over the whole primary cycle ( SSA to Standard Five ) . |
| 18 | For example , it seems that rats must be able to move about and explore their environment if they are to form an adequate map of it . |
| 19 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 20 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 21 | Since earliest times it seems that attempts were made to make wine as red as possible : in those places where vines producing white grapes thrived , it is likely that any |
| 22 | It seems that monopoles continue to present more problems than they solve . |
| 23 | So it seems that Laboulbeniales not only show host specificity and position-on-host specificity , but may also display sex-of-host specificity . |
| 24 | IT seems that home-owners are now being told they can save Pounds 2,000 a year if they rent rather than buy a property . |
| 25 | Who gives moral support to whom It seems that patterns of emotional support in crisis situations may be somewhat different from those which I have labelled ‘ routine ’ . |
| 26 | To summarize , it seems that detectors which will go into continuous operation in the next few years have a strong chance of detecting a type II supernova in our Galaxy provided that the collapse is asymmetric to the degree now thought likely . |
| 27 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 28 | It seems that women , whose fractured identity inhibits their union activity , will nevertheless encourage others , especially those who are highly articulate , to speak up on their behalf . |
| 29 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 30 | If one just casts an eye over the history of the condition of women — marked by struggles , it has continued to evolve , but at such pace that it seems that women who struggle for their liberation and at the same time for that of their societies , are undertaking a long drawn-out campaign . |