Example sentences of "still seems [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Many of these are , and will be , disputed , but it still seems probable that such collisions must be considered as a regular feature of earth history .
2 Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) .
3 Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort .
4 But whether our pebbles come all the way from Brittany ( as still seems possible ) or from hidden or eroded local sources is almost irrelevant .
5 The answer still seems clear .
6 But if the pairing still seems unlikely , bear in mind that both are extrovert , larger than life and indefatigably self-confident , with two of the hardest-working mouths in the media .
7 Since both Koreas joined the UN in September 1991 , it looks slightly more possible that the two Chinas could be members as well ; but it still seems unlikely that China , committed to opposing formal Taiwanese independence by force , would allow it .
8 And yet it still seems questionable whether Scorsese 's work has the range and the depth which would properly carry him beyond celebrity to ‘ greatness ’ .
9 Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run .
10 The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday .
11 What still seems most important to me , after seven years , is still the callers and the way that we do or do n't service their needs .
12 So that was Foinavon 's year , a race which still seems incredible looking back 26 years .
13 Yet the West still seems determined to exclude Iran from regional security , no doubt because of United States irritation with the humiliation visited upon it during the Gulf war by the Islamic republic .
14 Notwithstanding this promise , the use of road pricing to change travel habits still seems some way off .
15 Although Lee Crooks , the Great Britain forward , was taken off Leeds 's transfer list recently , a move still seems likely with Castleford the likeliest destination .
16 For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen .
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