Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] seem to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this may seem to be a statement of the obvious , it is in fact a very important point which goes to the very roots of movie making . |
| 2 | This may seem to be a difficult way of creating a tapestry or some embroidery , but if you are skilled at needlework you will find it extremely satisfying to have made something from your own design . |
| 3 | This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity . |
| 4 | The obvious answer to all this may seem to be a separate crew to work and clean the ship and a team of specialists for the revenue work . |
| 5 | This may seem to be a rather unsurprising observation , but I feel it has very important consequences for arts education , underlining as it does the unease teachers feel about examinations in these subjects . |
| 6 | At first glance this might seem to be a more straightforward operation than gathering membership statistics — after all , attenders are visible on church premises and therefore easily counted . |
| 7 | To eliminate the possibility of this would seem to be a retrograde step . |
| 8 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 9 | Moreover , given the open-ended nature of this phrase and the already existing divergence of opinion among the national courts as to how those words are to be interpreted , this would seem to be a classic situation for the UK courts to give effect to Community law by interpretation of the national law so as to achieve congruence between the national and the Community norms . |
| 10 | This would seem to be a more constructive approach than simply locking up individuals . |
| 11 | This would seem to be an obvious recognition that nothing lasts for ever . |
| 12 | ‘ That would seem to be a fair inference . ’ |