Example sentences of "it seem probable " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed probable to Allen that there were still four verderers but that now they had between them only three horses . |
| 2 | It seemed probable . |
| 3 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 4 | It seemed probable that Ras Hailu and Ras Seyum would join him , and that all Tigre , Begemder , Gojjam and Wollo would rise in revolt . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed probable , ’ not looking at Samuel . |
| 6 | With a good downpour it seemed probable that the bedroom ceiling below would come down . |
| 7 | It seemed probable that the number of word paths would increase substantially with the length of the utterance , and some of the test utterances were very long . |
| 8 | Although tests had not been completed it seemed probable that the infection was contracted during surgery and a junior member of the surgical team had been identified as a carrier who began work at the hospital in last May . |
| 9 | It seems probable that it was not until the doubling in the size of crowds between the wars that the ‘ rough ’ as opposed to the ‘ respectable ’ working class was fully represented as a proportion of the total population . |
| 10 | It seems probable that some doctors carry out mercy killings by administering large doses of pain-killing drugs which shorten life significantly , and the law may well protect them from liability . |
| 11 | They probably had a variety of different habits , some no doubt were scavengers , others sediment grazers , and it seems probable that some trilobites were also active hunters , pursuing worms and other soft-bodied prey , which they shredded using the spines on the base of their legs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events . |
| 14 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |
| 15 | Again it seems probable that this experienced pilot had fallen victim to Müncheberg , who claimed one Hurricane at 1306 , reporting ‘ the fighting spirit of the British pilot was fantastic ; he tried , although very badly hit , to still attack a Ju88 ( sic ) . ’ |
| 16 | It seems probable that , to our ancestors , there was no clear boundary between fields of endeavour that we now consider to be quite separate — for example , astronomy and religion . |
| 17 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 18 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 19 | It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world ; Scandinavian imports to Kent may have come directly or were also channelled through Francia . |
| 20 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 21 | And while one would like to think that opting out might allow schools greater freedom to develop their own distinctive philosophy , it seems probable that the vetting of proposals for opting-out will allow only those schools that are choosing to be more , not less , traditional , to do so . |
| 22 | The recently announced moratorium on new health promotion clinics has put a temporary brake on applications , but it seems probable that the new regulations from next April will encompass stress clinics , although within a cash limited total . |
| 23 | From subsequent events it seems probable that two tribes gave Rome considerable assistance during the landing and fighting that followed . |
| 24 | It seems probable that the visiting extra-terrestrial would see ethnic exclusiveness and conflict , xenophobia and fundamentalism as aspects of the same general phenomenon . |
| 25 | But as the fall in the proportion of domestic servants began after professional families started to limit their families , it seems probable that the limitation of children caused the reduction in domestic service . |
| 26 | But it seems probable that in the period 1183–5 the Counts of Toulouse were able to recover much of the territory they had lost in 1159 , above all Cahors and the Quercy . |
| 27 | It seems probable that , with the loosening of marital and family bonds , adultery is on the increase or at least can be more openly admitted . |
| 28 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 29 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |
| 30 | This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions . |