Example sentences of "seem [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since only a limited number of booklets had been issued to each school , it seemed possible that many teachers might well have seen and used it , a section at a time , in the form of photocopied sheets . |
| 2 | Because of the rigorous nature of fasting and bowel preparations before surgical resection of tumours , it seemed possible that these procedures could contribute to the hypocholesterolaemiac state . |
| 3 | As bile salts release PYY and PYY has been reported to slow intestinal transit time , it seemed possible that this peptide plays a role in the regulation of ileal motility . |
| 4 | Once they were revealed , it seemed extraordinary that either operation should have borne the stamp of the American government ; they seemed to be bad dreams . |
| 5 | As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire . |
| 6 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 7 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 8 | It seems strange that this phenomenon , so necessary both for social cohesion and for the development of real harmony between ourselves and our horses , has been given less attention than pecking order : a reflection , perhaps , on the observer more than on the observed . |
| 9 | It seems possible that this material originates from rare mucosal endocrine cells expressing the gastrin gene . |
| 10 | There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening . |
| 11 | However , as items that were merged on word-lists were commonly differentiated in conversational styles ( and speakers sometimes actually commented on that fact ) , it seems possible that some speakers may favour the flip-flop rule in casual style and the merger in word-lists . |
| 12 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 13 | Finally , although it seems clear that many methods of appropriability are far from perfect ( patents , for example , offer only limited protection in most sectors ) , firms can exert at least some control over their knowhow . |
| 14 | Regardless of overall inefficiency , it seems clear that more meals will be cooked over charcoal in the future . |
| 15 | It seems clear that this approach contains elements familiar to both the social workers and the nurses on the team . |
| 16 | However , it seems clear that these units must be established in some other way . |
| 17 | But it seems clear that some people , perhaps the members of the monastery themselves , thought it was a serious possibility , and they took steps to ensure that neither Lanfranc nor anyone else would be able to carry out this sweeping measure of reform . |
| 18 | It seems impossible that any mother would be able to find her own babe from among such a throng . |
| 19 | For those who do not have addictive diseases it seems incongruous that some sufferers will pursue their addiction to death , either through the consequences of the addiction or through suicide at the sense of hopelessness that is the hallmark of sufferers from the primary disease , - but that is the nature of the addiction . |
| 20 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 21 | In the light of these points and Benyon 's claims mentioned above , it seems inevitable that any insider analysis of policing seems destined to alarm . |
| 22 | Miss Lamb , of Worsley Crescent , Marton , Middlesbrough said : ‘ It seems incredible that these people are allowed to market them quite openly . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It seems likely that several factors account for the gender differences in morbidity and that there are different explanations for different types of illness . |
| 25 | It seems likely that any hearing user must understand both and certainly needs BSL in order to adequately construct visually appropriate sequences in a signed English form . |
| 26 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 27 | We have the example of the anaerobic bacteria to show us that life can exist — indeed , may have to exist — without the presence of oxygen , but that is a slightly different concern : it seems likely that these bacteria evolved in an oxygen-rich environment and then adapted to ecologies lacking in oxygen . |
| 28 | It seems likely that these eye movements are involuntary symptoms of neurophysiological events taking place during REM sleep , with no direct relation to the images generated during dreaming . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It seems likely that some legislators in New York State will demand a new public accountability from museums receiving public funds . |