Example sentences of "it seems [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that pastoral conventions are useful in defending traditional rights , though the idea of an immediate economic advance is much harder for Leapor to accommodate . |
| 2 | As usual , it seems that similar phenomena can be produced in different ways . |
| 3 | However , it seems that deductive markers are optional and can sometimes be omitted from deductive explanations , as in : |
| 4 | Although the White Paper is as yet just a White Paper and not law , it seems that certain hospitals are being pushed towards ’ opting out ’ . |
| 5 | It seems that reasonable cars and the black community , at least in the eyes of the police , do not go together . |
| 6 | It seems that existing residents have hardly benefited at all , as most jobs created have gone to those living outside the area , and most economic gains to international finance companies , property developers and construction companies ( see Goodwin , 1989 , for details ) . |
| 7 | In the light of recent scares about pesticide residues in food , nitrates in drinking water , and food poisoning in eggs , cheese and other foods , it seems that agricultural standards are due for an urgent review . |
| 8 | This extraordinary increase is due in part to the fact that the dogs breed twice a year and it seems that all females give birth whereas in wolf society only dominant females do so . |
| 9 | If natural selection were given its head , and an infinite amount of time to work in , then it seems that all lineages would tend inexorably towards ‘ perfection ’ ; where perfection was defined as perfect adaptation . |
| 10 | It seems that new recruits were likely to have been the spies of political opponents or officers of the Special Branch . |
| 11 | In general , it seems that enterprise-zone designations have increased the supply of property . |
| 12 | It seems that young women fear having the terms applied to them ( by men and also by one another ) , and they police their self-presentation and sexual behaviour to avoid being labelled slags . |
| 13 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 14 | It seems that limited settings or subjects are particularly suited to the crime short story . |
| 15 | And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it . |
| 16 | It seems that such facts are wholly irrelevant , at least in the standard case of discovery by a party to the action . |
| 17 | He could appear in several different forms and have several identities , and it seems that other deities had the same ability . |
| 18 | It seems that many buildings will soon become unsafe unless there is a big increase in funds available for much-needed work . |
| 19 | It seems that many men , however , show little in the way of symptoms and may therefore pass on the disease quite unknowingly . |
| 20 | Since the mid-1980s when the satanic child abuse scare first came to Britain , it seems that many workers within Social Services in particular have been influenced by this thinking . |
| 21 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 22 | From the CECOS Report it seems that church-related activities were often the main focus of outings for girls . |
| 23 | Few copies ever reached the streets : it seems that most copies were seized . |
| 24 | Third , it seems that most adults are predisposed to respond to infants as social beings , and they are prepared to spend a considerable amount of time and energy in establishing a degree of social rapport . |
| 25 | So it seems that most women go over the 20lb ‘ ideal gain ’ . |
| 26 | It seems that most chairmen do offer a brief explanation of the tribunal 's procedures , though these may be rather perfunctory . |
| 27 | It seems that most designers of fibreglass pools are not water gardeners , for the shelves are often narrow and curved making it difficult to accommodate a traditional square planting basket . |
| 28 | It seems that Cleaner Shrimps represent more than 15% of the total imports of invertebrates from the Far East and the damage to that trade would be significant if alternative captive-bred sources were developed . |
| 29 | It seems that British investors go for the north and west — Normandy and Brittany — and also like to invest their money further south in Aquitaine and Perigord . |
| 30 | At Bologna , it seems that both laws — the Roman or civil law , much used by the emperor , and the canon law , the law of the Church and of the papacy — were being taught by this date . |