Example sentences of "[conj] it seems certain that " in BNC.

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1 Two extensions at La Hague are already 18 months behind schedule , and it seems certain that fuel assemblies will have to be packed tighter in the pools .
2 The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived .
3 Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy .
4 Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities .
5 ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail .
6 After the outbreak of the Reformation crisis , Henry 's overseas ambitions were unabated , and it seems certain that their cost played a major part in prompting the rapacious seizure and subsequent disposal of the monastic lands , the greatest tenurial revolution in English history since the Norman Conquest .
7 At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law .
8 For painting other than on vases the evidence is as usual indirect ; but it seems certain that the emergence of a great new revolutionary style of wall-painting with broken ground-lines belongs after the retreat of the Persians , in the seventies .
9 The measurements of pressure and temperature do not penetrate beyond about the 1 bar level , but it seems certain that the adiabatic lapse-rate persists to far greater depths .
10 But it seems certain that the answer lies in the old house . ’
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