Example sentences of "seem [adj] [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final . |
| 2 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 3 | The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany . |
| 4 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 5 | And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event . |
| 6 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |
| 7 | It seems possible to argue that the tests described so far — for example , crossing out duplicate letters from blocks of random letters , answering questions of logic relating to the sequence of two letters , and copying symbols — are tests produced by psychologists for use by psychologists and that their relevance to ‘ real ’ tasks remains to be proved . |
| 8 | Here it seems hard to say that the party seeking to rely on the exemption clause is contracting on his own written standard terms . |
| 9 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 10 | The agreement to increase wages in eastern Germany by 18% ( see page 80 ) seems likely to ensure that the high cost will continue for several years . |
| 11 | It seems natural to assert that the extent to which managers deviate from owners ' interests will depend upon the degree of scope available to them and the degree to which they are constrained . |
| 12 | SO impressive has been Wigan 's play of late that it seems reasonable to conclude that the transitional period from the control of Graham Lowe to that of John Monie is complete . |
| 13 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 14 | Whatever the disagreements , it seems reasonable to say that the period circa 1890–1914 witnessed ‘ an unprecedented advance of machine technique and of mechanisation generally and automatism in particular ’ . |
| 15 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 16 | It therefore seems reasonable to suppose that the function of the brain is to mediate these more flexible links between stimuli and responses . |
| 17 | It now seems reasonable to expect that the new chalets will be filled either by short term letting through a central agency , or by ‘ time sharing ’ which seems to be popular these days . |
| 18 | Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization . |
| 19 | It seems reasonable to suggest that the natural theme we is omitted in the second sentence in order to foreground the rheme . |
| 20 | In fact , it seems reasonable to suggest that the answers to those five questions , suitably adapted , should be prominently displayed in every appropriate Trust property . |
| 21 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 22 | Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems reasonable to assume that the specific nature of the object , and in particular its physical presence , will result in a tendency for it to act in certain distinctive ways , compared with other media of cultural expression . |
| 24 | It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time . |
| 25 | In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present . |
| 26 | Even then , it seems reasonable to believe that the number of beneficiaries of such spillovers is limited . |
| 27 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 28 | In effect , it seems safe to conclude that the performance of feudal services by the King of England as duke of Aquitaine and count of Ponthieu was very largely a non-issue . |
| 29 | It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived . |
| 30 | While there are many circumstances in which that is true , it seems important to acknowledge that the political system contains biases that make it much easier for some groups to secure influence than others . |