Example sentences of "of [noun sg] may seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange as this type of decision may seem , it is quite frequently made . |
| 2 | Being ambitious to earn a lot of money may seem terribly important while you 're doing it . |
| 3 | The claim in this section that what I have called downwards opacity is a necessary feature of consciousness may seem open to the following reply : a person might claim that he was conscious , directly and permanently , of all aspects and details of his bodily functions : nerves , cells , blood vessels , etc. , and medical evidence might confirm what he said . |
| 4 | I suspect this is true for the majority of people : to accept help because of infirmity may seem an admission of defeat . |
| 5 | Compared with other types of organisation the potential advantages of bureaucracy may seem apparent . |
| 6 | Probably rather less than immediately appears , for , although symptoms of thrush may seem to be related to a recent sexual act , it may be that the trauma of vigorous sexual intercourse has brought to the surface that which was lying dormant . |
| 7 | While the idea of cannibalism may seem repugnant to us , it clearly has its advantages , and it is certainly not unique to spadefoot toads . |
| 8 | This ‘ compensation ’ method of walking may seem to get the patient on his feet more quickly than the modern method , but it leaves him overusing his unaffected side , therefore he is constantly increasing and fighting against his spasticity . |
| 9 | The fact that some infringements do not require any form of knowledge may seem unduly harsh , but knowledge is required for some of the remedies and the situation is not as inequitable as it might appear , bearing in mind the need to protect the patent . |
| 10 | The idea of inhibition may seem easy to apply but , in my experience , this is not the case . |
| 11 | The comparison of people with different types of soil may seem strange today but the idea of examining one 's own faith is a good one . |
| 12 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 13 | This method of food-gathering and the inactive mode of life may seem sufficiently dull for us to anticipate that the brachiopods would have changed little in their long history . |
| 14 | The rate of accretion may seem slight , but , as it means a gain in height of 0.4–1.0 m ( 1½–3½ ft ) per century , it must rank as one of the more rapid geomorphological processes . |
| 15 | To a small parish church with few resources , the laws of copyright may seem somewhat overbearing . |
| 16 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 17 | To those raised on an Eighties diet of youth-oriented street style , such games of detail may seem like intellectual tiddly-winks . |
| 18 | It is , moreover , absolutely essential that the Board 's work is of the highest quality , even if this should mean that at one point or another in time the quantity of production may seem spasmodic . |