Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems self-evident that decisions involving the lives of children should be well informed . |
| 2 | It seems extraordinary that circulars should be issued with no public health promotional material and no infrastructure available for the delivery of the recommended supplements . |
| 3 | Whilst departmental reports could have been discussed and a broad evaluation of curriculum strategy discussed by staff as a whole , it seems reasonable that reports which contained confidential matters were not circulating round the school . |
| 4 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 5 | GIVEN that the most decisive factor in the Lincoln Handicap has traditionally been the draw — made the previous day — it seems odd that trainers have a fetish for ‘ laying a horse out ’ for it months in advance . |
| 6 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 7 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |
| 8 | Until the status of teaching improves in the medical profession it seems unlikely that doctors in training will choose to make the efforts necessary to acquire teaching skills . |
| 9 | It seems unlikely that variations of this magnitude will prove to be correlated with need or deprivation . |
| 10 | Desirable though it may be , it seems unlikely that texts on specifically chemical aspects of economics will be developed . |
| 11 | The law is still unclear on the legal rights of human fertilised ova ( zygotes ) and even foetuses , so that it seems unlikely that animals will have legal rights for many years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it seems unlikely that humans enjoy a privileged protection from cancer viruses not shared by the rest of the animal kingdom . |
| 13 | It seems inevitable that redundancies will occur in the ports near the Tunnel as companies shed surplus capacity in an effort to improve productivity . |
| 14 | Already it seems clear that superantigens are yet another example of microbial pathogens evolving mechanisms to use and subvert the immune response ; we shall hear more of their role in infective and autoimmune disease . |
| 15 | The exact divisions remain uncertain , though it seems clear that rivers such as the Thames could have represented boundaries . |
| 16 | It seems clear that writers for the Review felt the need to bring , in Marie St Glare Byrne 's words , " something real into the nightmare world where " stylistic " evidence flourishes " . |
| 17 | It seems clear that epidemics of the bubonic type became increasingly limited to the towns , which provided a better habitat for the plague-carrying black rat . |
| 18 | It seems improbable that donors will be motivated to give time or money to a profit-making hospital or home , on the grounds that it would be difficult to ensure that the patients or residents received the benefit , not the owner . |
| 19 | It seems anomalous that animals injected during their life with hormones , which later cause damage to consumers , will not sound in liability for the farmer under Pt 1 of the CPA 1987. ( c ) Defect A product is defective under the CPA 1987 when it does not provide the safety which persons generally are entitled to expect , taking into account all the circumstances . |
| 20 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |
| 21 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
| 22 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
| 23 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 24 | It seems likely that changes in woodland management , the development of agriculture and the leisure and tourist industries will be the major factors affecting bird distribution in Sussex in the future . |
| 25 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 26 | Epithelial cells and fibroblasts differ in their pattern of cytokine gene expression , but it seems likely that fibroblasts may also influence T-cell maturation by contact mediated mechanisms . |
| 27 | Some bacteria , such as the one that causes syphilis , have flagellae ; and it seems likely that flagellae and cilia originated as parasitic bacteria which , instead of causing disease , remained and became incorporated into the cell as the relationship was mutually beneficial . |
| 28 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 29 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
| 30 | It seems likely that ch'i , for example , would cover a wide range of energy effects , and Paul Devereux has suggested that sha , the noxious form of ch'i , could actually be radon gas . |