Example sentences of "it [adv] seem possible [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ . |
| 2 | In London there were doubts as to whether the likely trade justified the expense of full diplomatic representation : it still seemed possible that Japan 's ports would be used mainly by whaling ships in the north Pacific rather than by merchantmen . |
| 3 | It hardly seemed possible that powerful , destructive passions could spring unendingly from such an unpromising source ! |
| 4 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 5 | It now seems possible that they are guided by the low-frequency pseudosounds in the thermals . |
| 6 | It now seems possible that the Abortion Pill , as it 's come to be called , will be available some time next year . |
| 7 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 8 | It even seems possible that Mushtaq 's idol , Abdul Qadir , the first leg-spinner since Chandrasekhar to take more than 200 Test wickets , will also tour . |
| 9 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 10 | It therefore seemed possible that referral rates would be higher among fundholders than among control practices in the year before the introduction of budgets , but that fundholders ' NHS referral rates would then fall . |
| 11 | It therefore seems possible that the B20 will be equipped directly with Intel Corp 's P5 chip rather than upgradable 80486 CPUs . |