Example sentences of "seems [adj] that in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 2 | First , it seems possible that in most cases the conditional statements about what would be observed in certain circumstances can not all be verified , because there will be cases where if you verify one you lose the chance of verifying another . |
| 3 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |
| 4 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 5 | When this approach is finally abandoned in the late eighth century , it is under the influence of eastern arts ; and it seems clear that in Geometric Greece there was no indigenous drawing , not on vases , of a freer kind . |
| 6 | It seems clear that in 1991 , as in 1990 and 1989 and after decades of decline , Britain 's portion of world trade in manufacturing exports will increase . |
| 7 | It therefore seems clear that in order to found an action for breach of confidence the defendant must have obtained the information as a result of a disclosure by the plaintiff in circumstances of confidence . |
| 8 | It seems likely that in most species these two selection pressures interact to produce a compromise weighted according to ( a ) the particular foraging requirements of a species in a given habitat and ( b ) alternative means of protection from whatever predators may be present . |
| 9 | It seems likely that in every case , perhaps after much agonizing , they succumbed to the decision to ban News International publications : to do otherwise would have risked contractual misconduct , strong moral and political pressure from both colleagues and employers , and ultimately , probably , dismissal . |
| 10 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 11 | It seems likely that in ways we can never measure , the preachings about the superiority of the life of the spirit may have been profoundly discouraging and alienating to mothers of very young children , who knew about the realities of their own lives and realized that these preachings were profoundly insensitive to those realities … . |
| 12 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 13 | Thus it seems likely that in the general process of longshore drift under the action of oblique waves , longshore currents and oblique rip currents may help in the movement of the finer material . |
| 14 | It seems likely that in glacial periods reefs would only have been karstified and not destroyed as envisaged by Daly . |
| 15 | With the advance of communication and storage technology , and the proven inadequacy of passive , unhelpful search programs — both of the keyword Boolean type and the browsing , phrase-matching type — it seems likely that in the not-far-distant future the old reference retrieval software will fall into disuse , intermediaries will be redeployed and we shall be able to throw away our front-ends to DIALOG . |
| 16 | Therefore , it seems likely that in coeliac disease extracellular cyclic nucleotide concentrations may reflect the abnormally high cAMP and cGMP content of mucosa from the small intestine . |
| 17 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 18 | It seems unlikely that in interpreting ( 28 ) the reader postulates any exact physical distance between the mother and the baby at the point before the mother picks the child up , or that he bothers to wonder whether the mother picks the child up after it has finished crying ( and if so how long after , in terms of minutes or seconds ) or whether the child was still crying when the mother picked it up . |
| 19 | However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education . |
| 20 | It also seems apparent that in overemphasising harmonious labour relations , the extent of industrial conflict in Japan may be underestimated . |
| 21 | But it seems probable that in the period 1183–5 the Counts of Toulouse were able to recover much of the territory they had lost in 1159 , above all Cahors and the Quercy . |
| 22 | This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions . |
| 23 | It seems indisputable that in a minority of cases , the causes of the disturbing behaviour are located wholly outside the responsibilities of the school and that the school is impotent in what it can offer . |