Example sentences of "it seem [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event . |
| 2 | It seemed reasonable to suppose that such benefits could be applied to other districts of the city without necessarily designating housing improvement schemes . |
| 3 | Since the logic of this eluded most people , it seemed reasonable to conclude that he was belatedly paying the price for arguing with an umpire . |
| 4 | In all fields , there was still much that was unknown : in Herbert Spencer 's philosophy , and in Tyndall 's Belfast address , there was room for the unknowable ; but it seemed reasonable to hope that under pressure from inquiring minds this would shrink , if not ultimately wither away altogether . |
| 5 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 6 | Quite apart from any other difficulties , it seemed implausible to suppose that a statement about a red rose in the dark did have exactly these or those consequences for possible observation . |
| 7 | But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America . |
| 8 | Having in Scotland lost the vote for the ordination of women to the priesthood , it seemed profitable to argue that women should be ordained to the diaconate ( that is to say be made deacons , not simply deaconesses ) . |
| 9 | How could she not have known she was in love with him ? she wondered — it seemed impossible to believe that she had looked at him , touched him , made love with him , and not known until yesterday . |
| 10 | To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final . |
| 11 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 12 | Looking across the " alley to the scars of North Hush , it seemed hard to believe that these deep gouges in the earth were manmade and were not the result of some massive upheaval in the earth 's crust . |
| 13 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 14 | It was against this background , namely that it seemed preposterous to suppose that a.b could ever be other than equal to b.a in any consistent algebraic setting , that Hamilton looked for more than 10 years for an extension of complex numbers suitable for application to the physics of 3-dimensional space . |
| 15 | The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany . |
| 16 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 17 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 18 | It seems logical to suppose that wilder and wilder swings must in the end get out of control . |
| 19 | Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes . |
| 20 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be , if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out . |
| 21 | Intuitively it seems reasonable to suppose that if we were designing an animal , we would ‘ hard-wire as much of the behaviour as possible . |
| 22 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 23 | It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history . |
| 24 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 25 | However , ‘ Motherese ’ is composed of many different characteristics and it seems reasonable to suppose that there is considerable variation among adults in respect of how far these features are reflected in their speech to young children . |
| 26 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they had been particularly depressed by the economic conditions of the inter-war period . |
| 27 | It seems reasonable to suppose that John was born and spent his early years in Grimston , Norfolk , where his family was recorded as having an estate in 1664 , but there is no record of his educational background . |
| 28 | Though statistics are lacking , it seems reasonable to conjecture that these conditions foster child abuse and neglect , even infanticide . |
| 29 | SO impressive has been Wigan 's play of late that it seems reasonable to conclude that the transitional period from the control of Graham Lowe to that of John Monie is complete . |
| 30 | Whatever the merits of these criticisms , it seems reasonable to conclude that this model of urban regeneration based on the co-ordination of public-sector organizations by a lead agency is unlikely to be used soon again . |