Example sentences of "it [vb -s] likely that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |
| 2 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
| 3 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
| 4 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 5 | It seems likely that changes in woodland management , the development of agriculture and the leisure and tourist industries will be the major factors affecting bird distribution in Sussex in the future . |
| 6 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 7 | Epithelial cells and fibroblasts differ in their pattern of cytokine gene expression , but it seems likely that fibroblasts may also influence T-cell maturation by contact mediated mechanisms . |
| 8 | Some bacteria , such as the one that causes syphilis , have flagellae ; and it seems likely that flagellae and cilia originated as parasitic bacteria which , instead of causing disease , remained and became incorporated into the cell as the relationship was mutually beneficial . |
| 9 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 10 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
| 11 | It seems likely that ch'i , for example , would cover a wide range of energy effects , and Paul Devereux has suggested that sha , the noxious form of ch'i , could actually be radon gas . |
| 12 | It seems likely that librarians , bibliographers , and the scientists themselves , will have to live with increased quantities of publications for the foreseeable future , and should instead develop their critical faculties and use other techniques for evaluating the worthwhile , and rejecting the worthless . |
| 13 | Prima facie , it seems likely that princes joined with other laymen and ecclesiastics in encouraging the extensive forest clearance that characterized the French countryside ; but proof is lacking . |
| 14 | Instead , it seems likely that voters choose on the basis of their experience , particularly of recent events . |
| 15 | And it seems likely that charities are being specifically targetted , as Simon Garrett explains |
| 16 | But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital . |
| 17 | It seems likely that examples of such flows will multiply in coming years . |