Example sentences of "it seemed clear [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 2 | However objectors might have viewed the political reality , it seemed clear that the Inspector saw these bodies as a valuable source of ‘ independent ’ advice to be set alongside the potential ‘ bias ’ of the CEGB . |
| 3 | It seemed clear that his new duties would keep him in London for some time — certainly his stay in Italy was at an end . |
| 4 | Until a few years ago , it seemed clear that there was redundancy where an employer no longer required the same number of employees . |
| 5 | It seemed clear that anything more than a purely intergovernmental system of consultation and cooperation would be deemed undesirable by Britain . |
| 6 | To the cynical and not so cynical , it seemed clear that Britain was seeking to secure the best of two worlds : to take advantage of the market opportunities for its own industrial goods that a free trade area would provide , while still retaining its special economic arrangements with the Commonwealth , especially its cheap food policy . |
| 7 | To many it seemed clear that if liberal capitalism ( of the sort advocated by Disraeli ) were not to be swept away by revolution , the largely illiterate workforce must be encouraged to believe that their welfare would be protected by the new rulers — the powerful middle class . |
| 8 | When , for example , I discovered that 90 per cent of those attending a workshop did not become Moonies , it seemed clear that any brainwashing techniques that the movement was employing were , to say the least , not very efficient . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seemed clear that Gilbert had wiped out the landmarks . |
| 11 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |
| 12 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 13 | In general terms it seemed clear that the prevalence of tied peasants inhibited the development of industry , which was regarded as requiring free labour . |