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

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1	Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it .
2	Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ .
3	Sugars also attach to proteins to form ‘ glycoproteins ’ , and it now seems that most proteins function only in the form of glycoprotein .
4	Its discovery in E. coli is relatively recent , and it now seems that most bacteria can be transformed by raw DNA .
5	However , the sex of the fetus will be known in numerous situations of antenatal diagnosis other than for sex-linked diseases , and it now seems that some women seek abortions merely because they are dissatisfied with the sex of the fetus .
6	However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour .
7	‘ I do n't know if you 've heard , but it rather seems that the police suspect one of the lecturers at the college of killing her , ’ said Melissa .
8	But it now seems that people completely unknown to me , absolute strangers , have been giving me what my mother used to call ‘ old-fashioned looks ’ or furtive , sidelong glances .
9	The meaning of this phrase was never very clear , but it now seems that whatever it meant , the availability of these two remedies is not limited in this way .
10	The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair .
11	For it sometimes seems that men and women inhabit different emotional worlds .

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