Example sentences of "seem [adj] [that] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 2 | It seemed impossible that she could have fallen in love so swiftly and completely , especially when she 'd managed to remain heart-whole quite effortlessly all this time . |
| 3 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 4 | ‘ But it seemed inconceivable that it could have been an accident . ’ |
| 5 | It seems doubtful that they could have done otherwise . |
| 6 | If it seems inevitable that you will have to leave , consultation may still achieve a useful improvement in your severance terms . |
| 7 | It now seems inevitable that he will have to devalue within the ERM . |
| 8 | However , it seems likely that they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation since it merely requires a local authority to provide sewerage wherever it can but within the bounds of reason and by no means universally . |
| 9 | Although it is too soon to draw any firm conclusions about the effects of this scheme , it seems likely that it will have a considerable impact on the culture of schools , and the future structure of schooling itself . |
| 10 | Some use them to store management committee records , a few use them for bureau statistics but although their contribution is growing , it seems unlikely that they will have an immediate effect on client queues . |
| 11 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 12 | If the animal lived on the sea bottom , it seems unlikely that it would have eye lenses specialized for looking downwards , and we begin to suspect that the animal habitually dwelt above the sea floor . |
| 13 | It seems important that I should have links , in developing links you ought to see that as part of our agenda . |
| 14 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 15 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 16 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 17 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 18 | Given the range of institutions and the varying sets of social relations involved , it does not seem surprising that there should have been an increase in the diversity of local politics . |