Example sentences of "seems that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 2 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 3 | The extent to which , in informal care , it is acceptable for men to care for women in relation to more intimate tasks is variable and seems that gender taboos are less likely to apply when a man is caring for his wife , than , say , a son for his mother . |
| 4 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 5 | It seems that femininity had always to be ‘ cultivated , achieved and preserved , while masculinity could be left to look after itself ’ . |
| 6 | Instead , it seems that money is to be spent in an almost futile attempt to attract to the bay , at a time of recession , companies and start-up projects that , by rights , should be located elsewhere . |
| 7 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 8 | It seems that Parliament accepted this recommendation , although I doubt whether blood donation will create any problem as a ‘ Gillick competent ’ minor of any age would be able to give consent under the common law . |
| 9 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 10 | In terms of the dictum in Lord Roskill 's speech in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 , Parliament had otherwise ordained with regard to recklessness in s.47 — after Spratt it seems that Parliament can otherwise ordain without expressing such a wish . |
| 11 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 12 | Ray says : ‘ It seems that life has changed very little in the area since the initial contract completion . |
| 13 | As sialic acid may be considered an index of mucus glycoprotein degradation , it seems that gastrin stimulation of gastric epithelial cells results in a concomittant secretion of platelet activating factor precursors , acid , and pepsin irrespective of mucus glycoprotein degradation . |
| 14 | The circumstances , on the other hand , seem to play a greater role in : ( 77 ) It seems that publication in The Times last month of Mr Benn 's report to the TUC — Labour Party Liaison Committee on the Department of Industry 's current work programme has angered Mr Wilson [ = the Prime Minister ] … |
| 15 | Now it seems that percentage rugby is the name of the game . |
| 16 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
| 17 | It seems that land has this centrality at times of change , either growth or decline . |
| 18 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
| 19 | Sometimes it seems that way , does n't it ? |
| 20 | It seems that fossil dolphins , like living odontocetes , used echolocation to navigate and Find prey . |
| 21 | Now , after experiment rather than speculation , it seems that stabilimenta are really early warning landmarks for birds . |
| 22 | It now seems that tubercle bacilli cause human disease because of their ability to induce necrotic tissue reactions , analogous to the Koch phenomenon in the guinea pig , rather than protective reactions . |
| 23 | When at times she is feeling particularly low and bereft , you might also remind her gently that although it seems that love has departed from her life altogether with the loss of her husband , this is not so . |
| 24 | It seems that androgyny is psychologically and socially valuable for women ( Jones et al . |
| 25 | It seems that union members have learned their lesson after they allowed Ronald Reagan to break the air traffic controllers in the early Eighties . |
| 26 | As for the Dukes , it seems that fate having struck once in the case of Sarah , was disinclined to give up . |
| 27 | It seems that type ( a ) concerns cases where more than one consonant precedes the weak syllable in question , and type ( b ) where there is only one consonant preceding . |
| 28 | Whilst it may seem a far cry from the appalling civil war that has torn Yugoslavia apart or the collapse of the Soviet Union into an uneasy Commonwealth of Independent States , it seems that sport , and rugby in particular , can play its part in preventing the exaggeration and exploitation of nationalist feeling on international occasions . |
| 29 | Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) . |
| 30 | However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field . |