Example sentences of "seems clear [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 2 | Distinguishing between a multiplicity of variables in accounting for policy variations is , of course , a hazardous exercise , but despite the methodological difficulties it seems clear that a simple agency model , with local authorities implementing national policies with little or no discretion , is far from accurate . |
| 3 | Whatever display and interaction techniques are used , it seems clear that a system which aims to satisfy the widely differing needs of widely differing types of user must already incorporate some degree of adaptivity . |
| 4 | For my part , it seems clear that a viable distinction can be made between economic growth ( measured on such criteria as GNP per capita , proportion of the labour force engaged in industry , and the proportion of manufactured goods in total exports ) and development , which has somewhat wider social and political implications . |
| 5 | It seems clear that a wide range of liaisons , some permanent , others later resolved one way or the other , existed in both rural and urban areas . |
| 6 | Apart from the argument that there is simply too much government ( eleven state parliaments and governments , a bi-cameral federal parliament and a federal cabinet with 39 ministers , all for a country with less than half the population of Britain ( 26 million ) ) , it seems clear that the policy of bilingualism has rendered the government opaque and bureaucratic . |
| 7 | However , it seems clear that the custom is a relic of pre-Christian sun worship , a celebration of the fact of the sun reaching its Zenith and an offering as an earnest for the promise of a good harvest . |
| 8 | It has also sought , without much success , a guarantee against predatory pricing by Eurotunnel although it seems clear that the government would not allow the ferries to go bankrupt as the result of such a strategy . |
| 9 | Whatever the future of the ferry industry it seems clear that the Channel ports are bound to suffer sharp job losses in the short term . |
| 10 | It seems clear that the introduction of systems that can complement and help guide good diagnostic judgement and reasoning is worth evaluation . |
| 11 | In any event , it seems clear that the follow-on loan is generally bad for consumers , as it restricts their potential credit choice by binding them even more firmly into one type of weekly-collection credit . |
| 12 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 13 | Therefore it seems clear that the real issue is neither closure nor business as usual . |
| 14 | It seems clear that the value of the whole state of consciousness is not properly regarded as the sum of the value of its parts . |
| 15 | Finally , it seems clear that the meaning of ‘ sufficient interest ’ is related to some extent to the ground on which the decision is being challenged . |
| 16 | It seems clear that the principle that remedies are a matter for the courts of Member States and the principle of effective protection are , potentially at least , in conflict ; and that ultimately the legal system which creates a right must also control the way that right is protected . |
| 17 | It seems clear that the Egyptian monastic system , with its network of desert communities , was closely modelled on prototypes such as Qumran . |
| 18 | It seems clear that the USSR , like many developing countries , has been revising its opinion about the nature of what bargaining with firms entails . |
| 19 | Already it seems clear that the same forces that have acted to bind together trade and investment flows within the OECD are affecting South-South economic relations . |
| 20 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |
| 21 | If , having read this , you pick up a magazine targeted at younger teenagers — for example , one of the pop music or video games magazines — the layout is so ‘ reader-unfriendly ’ that it seems clear that the criteria for ‘ correctness ’ in a layout need , at least , some re-evaluation for this target audience . |
| 22 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 23 | It seems clear that the poorest-quality rural housing persists where the traditional rural economy is still strongest and where urbanization levels are low ( Dunn et al . |
| 24 | It also seems clear that the trend will soon emerge elsewhere , for as Vining and Pallone ( 1982 ) in their study of 22 countries have argued , the phenomenon is due to the fact that the scale economies of the core regions of any country either have been or are being reduced , as the peripheral areas manage to offer sites that are as competitive as those of the core regions . |
| 25 | Although Lord Cairns regarded the principles applicable as extremely simple , it seems clear that the common law was faced by a new and important problem which could not be solved by merely applying the existing authorities . |
| 26 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 27 | It is difficult to assess the real impact of these activities on actual policy formulation , but it seems clear that the activities of the preparatory committees at least were thorough and significant , and to some extent taken seriously by the party and government ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 188–90 ) . |
| 28 | As a result , it seems clear that the prosecutor need not establish at the outset that such was the defendant 's intention or awareness . |
| 29 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 30 | If it seems clear that the insured is in breach of the full value declaration we should seek to avoid the policy and return the premium . |