Example sentences of "it seemed clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the surprising ease of the victory over the Poles , the real test , it seemed clear , was yet to come . |
| 2 | It seemed clear to many that with the defeat of France a glorious peace was imminent . |
| 3 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I just thought of the poem , standing there , and then it seemed clear . |
| 6 | It seemed clear that his new duties would keep him in London for some time — certainly his stay in Italy was at an end . |
| 7 | Until a few years ago , it seemed clear that there was redundancy where an employer no longer required the same number of employees . |
| 8 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 9 | It seemed clear that anything more than a purely intergovernmental system of consultation and cooperation would be deemed undesirable by Britain . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the one hand , it seemed clear from the studies in five authorities that the Act 's emphasis on partnership was recognised and in general accepted . |
| 14 | It seemed clear to me that St John had to struggle with himself to refuse this smiling invitation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates . |
| 17 | By the end of the 1970s , it seemed clear to me that if any cellular or biochemical process was to be regarded as forming part of some type of memorial code , it must show just these features that the drug studies could not readily provide , of being both necessary and sufficient to account for the memory . |
| 18 | It seemed clear that Gilbert had wiped out the landmarks . |
| 19 | It was then that the Italian people began to understand what his intentions were ; and when he later referred to the need for the colonies to be protected from aggression , it seemed clear that war in Africa could not be avoided . |
| 20 | Preliminaries , it seemed clear , were not something she cared for . |
| 21 | It seemed clear now that there was a side to Elise which Merrill had n't known at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In general terms it seemed clear that the prevalence of tied peasants inhibited the development of industry , which was regarded as requiring free labour . |
| 25 | It seemed clear , however , that the complete coding sequence of this protein is contained within the clones sequenced and represents the Drosophila homolog of human SSRP1 . |