Example sentences of "but it seems that [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It continued at Mr John Eames 's Moorfields Dissenting Academy in London , but it seems that young Howard did not take readily to formal learning and to the end of his life he remained only indifferently literate .
2 There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload .
3 No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons
4 But it seems that that is n't what 's being taught , and therefore , in information about that comes , well either via your own experience or talking with friends or reading womens ' magazines or I mean whe , where do we actually get our education from ?
5 The relationships between the Variscides of Europe and the Appalachians of North America — and indeed between parts of the Appalachian province itself — are still a subject for controversy at a detailed level ( see Dewey 1982 ; Rast 1984 ; also several papers in Hutton and Sanderson 1984 ) , but it seems that useful , if cautious , parallels can be drawn between the partly concealed Variscides of Europe ( including southern England ) and the well exposed and much studied southern Appalachians ( Fig. 1 ) .
6 But it seems that neither had any connection with a much more notable and wholly bona fide development , the National Union of Ships ' Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers which appeared in Liverpool in 1909 under the charismatic leadership of Joe Cotter , known as " Explosive Joe " , who , it has been claimed , had been fired by the Cunard Line for agitating against the influx of continental cooks and stewards on to British ships .
7 Timings were not available as we went to press but it seems that this year 's performance honours must go to the Riddles machine .
8 In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract .
9 It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information .
10 But it seems that these profit-hungry hospitals have found a way of practising legalised euthanasia .
  Next page