Example sentences of "it seemed obvious " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1950s and 60s , when Britain itself needed workers , it seemed obvious to turn again to the vast army of labour which waited in the colonies and ex-colonies , and whose situation itself had been created by colonialism . |
| 2 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
| 3 | The same medical model taught that both male and female had to produce the fluids necessary to conceive a child , and it seemed obvious that this occurred , in both sexes , with orgasm . |
| 4 | When this proved negative it seemed obvious that Crabb had drowned . |
| 5 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 6 | On the other hand , it seemed obvious that the United States would not back down — and Western Europe was still heavily dependent upon the United States . |
| 7 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 8 | Biogeography was the principal source of Darwin 's theory of evolution , but to most of his contemporaries it seemed obvious that the starting point for any investigation of the history of life on earth must be the fossil record . |
| 9 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 10 | It seemed obvious . ’ |
| 11 | Working from my assumption that there was something between the two of you anyway , it seemed obvious that you 'd decided to take it much further . ’ |
| 12 | It seemed obvious that all this operator handling must be contributing to the black specks . |