Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it seem [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In each case it seemed clear that local adaptation was taking place , showing — as far as Pearson and Weldon were concerned — that natural selection was an effective evolutionary mechanism .
2 In general for specific cases it seems better to replace the word " sensible " with stated limits ( Example 100 ) .
3 The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur .
4 She had no idea what he was up to , but instinct told her that he was trying to help her , and in this case it seemed wiser to follow her instincts .
5 In many instances , pellet formation is stimulated by the availability of the next meal ( Chitty , 1938 ) , with the previous meal being regurgitated even if not fully digested in order to leave room for the next and in this case it seems likely that the initial level of pH would be higher than normal .
6 And in this case it seems likely that even if it were not for the depressed state of aggregate demand in the British market , the commodities produced by Talbot at Linwood would not have generated ‘ sufficient ’ profit for Peugeot .
7 However , once one acknowledges Jackson 's involvement with this period it seems important to move on .
8 On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ .
9 In some ways it seemed longer than that to Lewis and in others only yesterday .
10 In this respect it seems unlikely that successive governments were given the opportunity to return to normalcy in the manner which they wished .
11 For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik .
12 In this situation it seemed appropriate for the staff at Perth College to offer educational opportunities which would parallel those available in other music fields .
13 In some way it seemed that Why ? was to be answered by the existence of a person .
14 Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source .
15 But this time it seemed worse .
16 In this context it seems understandable why those active in promoting empowerment through self-help organisations might not see an equally important role for disability arts and culture in advancing the well-being of disabled people .
17 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
18 If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again .
19 In view of these discrepant results it seems unlikely that coexisting HBV infection plays a significant role in the aetiopathogenesis of alcohol related liver damage , at least in areas of low HBV prevalence such as Britain .
20 Even at this early stage it seems clear that different models of participation are appropriate for different types of service user , and experiment is necessary to find a form with which users are comfortable .
21 For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe .
22 Given these circumstances it seems remarkable that the proposed tax cut made any significant headway at all , but it had one enormously important advantage — the whole hearted support of Ronald Reagan .
23 As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world .
24 He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne .
25 Yet as its name suggests the system 's most distinctive feature is the transferability of votes , and since they are in fact transferred in large quantities it seems paradoxical to ignore them .
26 Since the core Ser-Gln sequence is flanked on both sides by acidic residues it seemed possible that there may be some degeneracy in that one Glu residue may be sufficient to maintain recognition by the DNA-PK .
27 In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art .
28 The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized .
29 The name is somewhat misleading , since in ancient times it seems likely that the division of life into ‘ sacred ’ and ‘ secular ’ had no meaning : the whole of life was considered sacred , as were artistic and other creations .
30 With a good downpour it seemed probable that the bedroom ceiling below would come down .
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