Example sentences of "[pron] seem likely [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed likely that many isolated sections of the League of Youth would merge into the Young Communist League if the national organization were not restored . |
| 2 | As the public sector debt repayment is now contracting in size ( to only £0.4 billion in 1990/91 compared with £14.7 billion in 1988/89 and £7.9 billion in 1989/90 ) and as a public sector borrowing requirement is expected for the 1991/92 and 1992/93 financial years , it seems likely that regular issuance of Treasury bills will be maintained . |
| 3 | It seems likely that practical work in subjects such as CDT has helped to develop these skills for some pupils . |
| 4 | Since dinuclear complexes and a trinuclear dithiadiazole complex have been prepared , it seems likely that higher oligomeric chain and cluster compounds will soon be prepared , giving a variety of unusual compounds . |
| 5 | From evidence on cross-addiction it seems likely that addictive disease is one disease with many facets and that any sufferer from any addictive disease might benefit from following the recommendations for all addictions . |
| 6 | It appears , therefore , that synaptogenic mechanisms have been strongly conserved and it seems likely that similar molecular and genetic pathways control these interactions in Drosophila and other organisms . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it seems likely that similar factors will in fact be taken into account by the courts . |
| 8 | It seems likely that Oct-11 will be involved in similar interactions . |
| 9 | If there is undetected contamination in the Esk , then it seems likely that other areas of the west coast are also contaminated without showing up in official statistics , Mr Green says . |
| 10 | The barn was on a main road , and it seems likely that one of the adults was killed and the other went off in search of another mate . |
| 11 | Had it been , Bingham says , ‘ it seems likely that all concerned would have embarked on a group restructuring programme with a much fuller investigation and understanding of the malpractice which had existed in the past and of the level of support required , or that the bank would have been closed or would have collapsed there and then ’ . |
| 12 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 13 | Arrivals have frequently been noted at the coast during this period , and it seems likely that such movements are of birds going to favoured areas to moult . |
| 14 | Although at least 80 per cent of patients referred to the general hospital in Oxford after self-injury have cut themselves superficially , it seems likely that many more episodes of deliberate self-cutting occur than are identified through general hospital records . |
| 15 | In fact , it seems likely that many of the studies of memory for arousing stimuli ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ) are not showing any effects at all which should be directly attributed to the subject 's general level of arousal . |
| 16 | In particular , it seems likely that inner city areas , with high levels of social deprivation and physical disintegration , would lose money . |
| 17 | It seems likely that most of the Whessoe village cottages were where Burtree Lane meets Whessoe Road . |
| 18 | It seems likely that those generated in the 1970s and early 1980s will prove the most difficult to preserve , because of the rapid obsolescence of so much hardware and software during that period . |
| 19 | It seems likely that several factors account for the gender differences in morbidity and that there are different explanations for different types of illness . |
| 20 | It seems likely that some legislators in New York State will demand a new public accountability from museums receiving public funds . |
| 21 | At least 72 of our sample left the printing trade during the war years , according to the records mostly in 1916–17 , although it seems likely that some had already left , since the city 's book trade went into immediate depression on the outbreak of war . |
| 22 | For it seems likely that some signifying structures are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than are some others ; similarly , that they are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than to those of another . |
| 23 | In addition , it seems likely that some , at least , of those who choose to opt out of the state or their employer 's scheme may end up dependant on state benefits at a later date , as the benefits from the money purchase schemes are unpredictable for both employee and dependants . |
| 24 | Where oligopolistic market structures remain it seems likely that some firms will resort to informal agreements and the other collusive devices examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 25 | However , it seems likely that this burden can not be lightened without forcing too much of the decision-making task onto the focusing component of a system , with consequences such as those we saw earlier . |
| 26 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
| 27 | It seems likely that this entailment is interfering with antagonism in 49 — both events are interpreted as happening to the ‘ global door ’ , of which the door-panel is a part . |
| 28 | As inner cities in Britain continue to decay , it seems likely that this problem will be present , though perhaps in a less acute form , in a number of places . |
| 29 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 30 | It seems likely that this is typical of tasks at the operational level , such tasks can be performed automatically and no episodic memory for their performance is normally formed . |