Example sentences of "it seems [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems self-evident that decisions involving the lives of children should be well informed . |
| 2 | It seems self-evident that war , and the authority of the military and security men , have rendered most of us mere passive spectators because we are powerless to change the course of the story ; but also because in the end the war , like national public life , has been put on for our benefit . |
| 3 | It seems impossible that Matthew and his readers were not aware of the original meaning of these words . |
| 4 | It seems extraordinary that circulars should be issued with no public health promotional material and no infrastructure available for the delivery of the recommended supplements . |
| 5 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 6 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 7 | Whilst departmental reports could have been discussed and a broad evaluation of curriculum strategy discussed by staff as a whole , it seems reasonable that reports which contained confidential matters were not circulating round the school . |
| 8 | It seems reasonable that BW should look to outside bodies for funding , because of the problems of collecting revenue from users . |
| 9 | It will be argued that every event of the war can not be covered in one volume , but it seems strange that Brown saw fit to include a chapter on the making of the film of the Somme . |
| 10 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 11 | It seems relevant that anthropology be used at this time to contribute to the debate on policing , for since the 1964 Police Act and the preceding Royal Commission which was generated through concern over police practice , the organization has held an increasingly central place in the public imagination . |
| 12 | According to FDR 's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher : ‘ It seems undeniable that depressive neurosis — a state of reactive depression — was a condition of the last year and a half of his life . ’ |
| 13 | And it seems undeniable that ICMESA was in possession of a plant which , had it not been modified , would not have exploded . |
| 14 | ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail . |
| 15 | It seems certain that Yeltsin will have won the trust of a handsome majority of those turning out to vote ; consistently he has said that this is the only question he would take seriously . |
| 16 | At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law . |
| 17 | It seems certain that Louis-Napoleon would have preferred a prolongation of his power by legal means , but in the long run it was equally clear that he would not shrink from a confrontation with the opposition . |
| 18 | It seems certain that pavement K , Woodchester is of the same period as the Orpheus mosaic , i.e. c. 310-325 . |
| 19 | While Farr-Jones will be wearing the gold Australian jumper this year , it seems certain that flanker Simon Poidevin will be missing . |
| 20 | Two extensions at La Hague are already 18 months behind schedule , and it seems certain that fuel assemblies will have to be packed tighter in the pools . |
| 21 | The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived . |
| 22 | Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems undesirable that information of this kind should not be available to ordinary readers of the accounts . ’ |
| 24 | GIVEN that the most decisive factor in the Lincoln Handicap has traditionally been the draw — made the previous day — it seems odd that trainers have a fetish for ‘ laying a horse out ’ for it months in advance . |
| 25 | If we look at the history of the world , it seems surprising that love is included . |
| 26 | It seems surprising that Scott should be so ready to co-operate over the India Office with a man with such a different background and approach to architecture from himself . |
| 27 | Pearson & Bell ( 1919 ) undertook a far more extensive analysis , but it seems probable that Parsons ' original measurements are still the most reliable known , especially those of the femoral head diameter ( Thieme , 1957 ) . |
| 28 | It seems probable that rebellion in East Anglia was as rigorously suppressed as in Kent . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |