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

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1 So it would seem logical that the invitation to the lord 's table should be reciprocal , and why is it not ?
2 After all , trades councils are the local versions of the T U C , and so it would seem appropriate that they get a say at the T U C Congress itself .
3 So it would seem reasonable to suggest that second language learners might proceed in a similar way ( cf.
4 So it would seem safe to assume that life as a gay priest might be something of a tortured path — if not a contradiction in terms .
5 If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation .
6 If a deviant sentence can be normalised by adjusting its grammatical structure — for instance , by changing the order or syntactic category of elements , or by adding , substituting or deleting one or more grammatical elements — then it would seem reasonable to suppose that its deviance is grammatical in nature .
7 However , where the job was a very difficult one involving areas where it might be impossible to gain access even with scaffolding , and the reservation had been specifically drawn to the consumer 's attention , then it would seem reasonable to rely on the clause .
8 If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband .
9 Then it would seem romantic .
10 If then it would seem artificial to analyse and describe the whole process when asked the reason for my choice , is that not because I already have the vocabulary of pleasure to name it ?
11 It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work .
12 If income is part of ‘ ability to pay ’ , then it would seem clear that wealth is also .
13 If , on the other hand , the minimal change required is one necessarily involving one or more full lexical items , then it would seem justifiable to diagnose the deviance as semantic .
14 Firstly it would seem logical that the nil group must have included paupers , a challenging question that will be considered in due course .
15 Yet it would seem that , in the latter half of the eighteenth century , the movement of thought which generated the idealistic rhetoric of the American and French revolutions began to affect even the Roman Catholic Church .
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