Example sentences of "[conj] it may seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it may seem that her greatest loss may be that of her husband , it is usually recognized that she may well be unable to look at the implications of his death until she has dealt with those that happened before he died . |
| 2 | Although it may seem odd to call a jail sentence a ‘ reward ’ , that is how the men would see it if the alternative was a longer spell behind bars . |
| 3 | Although it may seem utterly unlikely , sometimes one can ‘ make fiends ’ with tinnitus . |
| 4 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 5 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 6 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 7 | Because of the close links between the Rover LTA School at Bisham Abbey and Wycombe High School , such a schedule is permitted , although it may seem unusual , to say the least , to most schoolchildren . |
| 8 | It is a fitting punishment , although it may seem harsh to you Humans . ’ |
| 9 | Although it may seem that the developments were exclusively within geomorphology this was not the case , because environmental reconstruction was increasingly shown to be dependent upon knowledge of the ways in which the soils and sediments as well as the surface morphology related to past systems of vegetation and to patterns of climate . |
| 10 | The pay-off in the long term is probably bad , although it may seem quite good in the short term . |
| 11 | Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida , it will be a highlight of your trip . |
| 12 | Although it may seem that the establishment of a foreign subsidiary exposes a firm to many of the risks which licensing minimises , a venture of this kind may offer the greatest potential . |
| 13 | Estimating cash flow forecasts from budgets is not the daunting task that it may seem . |
| 14 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 15 | Comparisons between the public and private sector also suggest that the question of incentives is more complex than it may seem from models such as Niskanen 's . |
| 16 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 17 | This is more difficult than it may seem . |
| 18 | It may appear harsh to criticize the Library Association for not pursuing possible cases of professional misconduct and it may seem even harsher to pillory members of the Association for putting personal interests first and professional interests second , but censorship , and being party to censorship . |
| 19 | And it may seem strange , but it 's very difficult to be a good composer on the guitar ; rhythmically you are often stuck and you ca n't play a lot of counterpoint rhythms . |
| 20 | She will recognize your being , and it may seem as if the light she is shining is a cold one at times . |
| 21 | This concept has been much haggled over , and it may seem both unfair to Poulantzas and unrevealing of his work as a whole to pick on its Achilles ' heel . |
| 22 | Certainly scientists and fifth-formers are not working in identical circumstances or in identical ways , and it may seem that the objective has been over-simplified or exaggerated . |
| 23 | Too short and it may seem rude , too long and it may bore the guests and dampen the proceedings . |
| 24 | The weight seems to pour on , especially after 24 weeks , and it may seem impossible to keep your weight gain within the current guidelines of 20–30lb . |
| 25 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 26 | While it may seem obvious that the anus and rectum of a passive homosexual may be sites of infection and should therefore be examined , it may be difficult for women to understand why this same examination needs to be performed on them . |
| 27 | While it may seem intuitively obvious that lexical access should start right at the beginning of the utterance and soon after its onset , the four systems tried a number of different approaches . |
| 28 | While it may seem harsh to leave out Wood , the decision marks the start of Durham 's policy of rotating their bowlers . |
| 29 | Whilst it may seem a far cry from the appalling civil war that has torn Yugoslavia apart or the collapse of the Soviet Union into an uneasy Commonwealth of Independent States , it seems that sport , and rugby in particular , can play its part in preventing the exaggeration and exploitation of nationalist feeling on international occasions . |
| 30 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |