Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] may seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flimsy as each thread may seem , such a network , they hope , can start to bind the three peoples together , and link them to other European countries whose help might gradually reduce their sense of insecurity . |
| 2 | Mock solemnity of this kind may seem rather tiresome , just as practical jokes are often not funny to those on whom they are played ( they may often appear to be lightly camouflaged forms of aggression ) , but such jokes were characteristic of the society in which he now moved : it is difficult to imagine him playing tricks on Pound or Lewis , for example . |
| 3 | Everything in this chapter may seem terribly grey and pessimistic , but the truth is that acting is probably the most optimistic of all professions — it is the nature of actors to hope . |
| 4 | Today this chapter may seem almost too anodyne to be significant , but it gave much-needed relief and encouragement to Catholic New Testament scholars ( see Fitzmyer , 1982 , pp. 97–142 ) . |
| 5 | Given the uncertain state of many world economies this optimism may seem surprising , but as Swiss dealer Ernst Beyeler says , ‘ There is still enormous personal wealth in the world . |
| 6 | This attitude may seem intensely romantic , but was acceptable to Eliot because sanctified through the anthropological eye . |
| 7 | I realize that this issue may seem British-centered . |
| 8 | While this reform may seem small in itself , it will play an important part in the overall strategy being advocated here of people being able to draw an income from work , wealth , as well as welfare . |
| 9 | are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station . |
| 10 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 11 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 12 | The use of the relay at this point may seem a bit odd as the switching could be electronically activated , but the use of a mechanical relay introduces a small but desirable time variation ( as well as possible bounce ! ) in the duration of the relays closure and so helps in enhancing the random operation of IC6 during the short time that the VCO is producing its high frequency output . |
| 13 | This distance may seem large , but it is dwarfed by the length of the Earth 's orbit — 9,300,000,000 km ( 5,800,000,000 miles ) . |
| 14 | In Robbe-Grillet 's fiction , this movement may seem most tangible . |
| 15 | This presupposition may seem an uncontentious one but it is far from that . |
| 16 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 17 | This approach may seem far-fetched , and there is a danger of reading too much of significance into oral reading errors . |
| 18 | While clearly relevant to interpreting activities , this approach may seem of limited applicability in translation since it appears to rely heavily on phonological evidence . |
| 19 | This statement may seem nonsense , since you have no idea of how the lecturer is to tackle the subject , but by means of a pattern diagram you can build up a picture of what your studies are to contain . |
| 20 | This analysis may seem academic and barren , and to some extent it is , for a closer examination of the rights conferred by shares and debentures will show the impossibility of preserving any hard and fast distinction between them which bears any relation to practical reality . |
| 21 | At first the remedy for this doubt may seem all too simple . |
| 22 | This allowance may seem large . |
| 23 | While all this activity may seem appropriate , it can not be stressed too often that ‘ Unless the Lord builds the house , its builders labour in vain ’ Psalm 127:1 |
| 24 | Attractive as this option may seem , protective authorisation does not provide firms with exemption from the regulations . |
| 25 | Such logic may seem odd . |
| 26 | That point may seem obvious but I do n't think whoever worked out the amounts given in state benefits ever took it into account . |
| 27 | This is sand-glass stuff and while each grain may seem small at the time there is an invincible logic to what happens in the end . |
| 28 | But , as controversial as that claim may seem to readers of the national press , it is an ersatz controversy , a creation of the press itself . |
| 29 | That sum may seem like a lot of lei ( the Romanian currency that purchases next to nothing abroad ) but it still left the Romanians treading a financial tightrope . |
| 30 | What happens in the middle part of each phase may seem — mistakenly — unimportant . |