Example sentences of "seem that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It does seem that the best strategy for sufferers is to come to terms with their complaint : it is not crippling or life threatening , but is a chronic condition , like arthritis .
2 It would seem that the primary activity of operations needs to be split into direct and indirect costs , with the latter analysed into major cost-driver categories as interpreted by Kaplan .
3 With reference to the early part of the century Eagleton writes : ‘ It does not seem that the emulsive space of the public sphere extended beyond parsons and surgeons to farm labourers or domestic servants …
4 ‘ Mr. Ross goes lieutenant into one of them if he can pass his examination on the morrow ’ , Keith informed his sister , and it would seem that the examining board were duly impressed by their admiral 's anxiety , for they took a chance on this doubtful candidate .
5 Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation .
6 It does seem that the only way a housewife can get any recognition of the value of her work is to refuse or fail to do it .
7 To a convinced empiricist it must seem that the only alternative is behaviourism : believing , expecting , hoping , and so on are not inner things , but outer things , things we learn about by looking at , and listening to , people — including ourselves .
8 It was irrelevant that the rubber would correspond with the contract sample by the simple process of warming the rubber and it would seem that the only relaxation of this strict rule is the de minimis principle ( see Joe Lowe Food Products Ltd v JA and P Holland Ltd [ 1954 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 71 ) .
9 It would seem that the real issue is not the imputed incoherence of general curricula , but the basic metaphors of higher education .
10 It remains to be seen who will end up being the dominant supplier , but it would seem that the sheer volume of Novell and DOS/Windows users will dictate that future PC Lan systems will have to be compatible with them .
11 From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society .
12 It would seem that the growing tendency towards stabling horses all day inside barns or sheds , where their visual stimulation is dramatically reduced , is likely to produce increasing numbers of overanxious or fearful horses , who behave inappropriately in the outside world .
13 It does seem that the social profile of the bridegrooms of our " compesses " displays several significant differences from that of their fathers , though one has to be careful about interpreting them .
14 It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics .
15 If you ca n't — or do n't want to — breastfeed , why does it seem that the whole world is out to make you feel guilty ?
16 It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief .
17 It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations .
18 It would seem that the simplest way of approaching this question is to remove part of the brain and assess the changes in behaviour that are produced .
19 It would seem that the old wall did not finally disappear altogether until the eighth-century , well after the city had been devastated by the Goths .
20 Although at the political level it would seem that the Keynesian position has been relegated , at the theoretical ( and practical ) level it is maintained that fiscal policy can influence the achievement of the objectives of government policy .
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