Example sentences of "a [noun sg] may seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a figure may seem insignificant but it represented a strength of purpose and feeling which made the small groups men and women of courage . |
| 2 | Such a programme may seem fanciful in certain respects . |
| 3 | Although participating in a programme may seem to be involving , it is no more personal than simply viewing . |
| 4 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 5 | Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand . |
| 6 | For example , a secretary may seem to be of higher occupational status than a builder 's labourer ( the blue collar/white collar distinction ) . |
| 7 | A tower may seem round from a distance , but there is no need to doubt our closer observation that it is square . |
| 8 | However securely based on observation a statement may seem to be , the possibility that new theoretical advances will reveal inadequacies in that statement can not be ruled out . |
| 9 | For the greatest player of the total-football era to face such an accusation may seem strange , but the long-serving Carrasco said upon leaving Barcelona for France : ‘ he wants static players in fixed positions … players who do exactly what he tells them and nothing else . |
| 10 | Obvious as such an approach may seem , it was a concept with revolutionary implications . |
| 11 | While such an approach may seem inconclusive , it is one that allows each cultural situation to be interpreted in internally appropriate ways , while at the same time giving full credence to the psychic and cognitive unity of humanity . |
| 12 | While such an assumption may seem so obvious as to be hardly worth mentioning , it is important that tests are able to substantiate their implicit claim to validity . |
| 13 | However far out an animal may seem to be going there is a tendency to swing back into a pre-ordained behaviour or orbit within which motivational satisfaction may be most probably attained . |