Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] seem [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |
| 2 | Although this may seem to be the logical method of connection , it will definitely not provide the desired result . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You few must seem to be many . ’ |
| 10 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 13 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 14 | This would seem to be unnecessarily pessimistic and may be a conclusion laid at the door of present organisational configurations in our schools . |
| 15 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 16 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 17 | However , in principle this would seem to be the most promising avenue to explore to furnish us with a better understanding of causal relations . |
| 18 | This would seem to be completely at variance with human expectations ; the requirement for a ‘ god ’ survives all . |
| 19 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 20 | As incentives go , this would seem to be somewhat more potent than the weekly communal weighing-in ceremony at Weight Watchers . |
| 21 | This would seem to be the general conclusion of research in this area , and Cumin 's conclusion that : |
| 22 | Some commentators see the last group mainly in terms of the process of the diffusion of technology , but this would seem to be too narrow a use of the concept since spread or diffusion is an essential , and probably the most important , element in all forms of technological change . |
| 23 | This would seem to be most applicable to Quadrant 4 types of innovations , and may well be counterproductive in the other areas . |
| 24 | All the oligopoly models just discussed are examples of non-co-operative games , and in the light of the antitrust laws in most advanced industrial countries this would seem to be appropriate . |
| 25 | To eliminate the possibility of this would seem to be a retrograde step . |
| 26 | This would seem to be an obvious recognition that nothing lasts for ever . |
| 27 | At least , this would seem to be the case for companies that have many product lines and are no further ahead than the ‘ islands of automation ’ stage . |
| 28 | However this would seem to be no more awkward an issue of fact than those which dally confront the criminal courts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |