Example sentences of "[conj] it seems that the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers .
2 Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 .
3 There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole .
4 The war continued but the German states were still neutral , and it seems that the travellers had illusions that Liberty , suppressed in England by Tories and in France by Jacobins , still lingered farther north .
5 Angles , Saxons and Jutes gradually colonised parts of Britain and it seems that the Saxons , at least in East Anglia , Kent and Hampshire , helped to maintain the general improvement of British cattle which had been initiated by the Romans .
6 ( The litter problem in the U.K generally , is an obvious one to an overseas visitor and it seems that the schools actually reinforce a bad social norm i.e. others should/will clean-up after you .
7 Difficulties abound , but it seems that the Russians are coming anyway .
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