Example sentences of "may [not/n't] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 2 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 3 | This ignoring of non-European high culture and history may not seem important , but it is a part of the same ethos which permits the everyday culture of Asian life to be stamped on so viciously in schools . |
| 4 | This may not seem much in terms of Hong Kong 's caseload of more tha 40,000 Vietnamese , but set in a historical context it is an achievement . |
| 5 | To Western eyes , this may not seem extraordinary . |
| 6 | This may not seem the best way to promote democracy or the unity of India . |
| 7 | This may not seem a great deal . |
| 8 | These figures have an abstract quality , and may not seem to mean much . |
| 9 | Rocks may not seem initially to be particularly magnetic . |
| 10 | So while it may not seem obvious that two magmas , differing only by 5 or 10 per cent in silica content , should behave quite differently on eruption , this chain of cause and effect operates to produce very substantial differences indeed . |
| 11 | As the subject has to be studied by all pupils , it tends to become a forum for half-baked discussion of moral or social issues , in order that it may not seem irrelevant to the non-religious , or offensive to the keenly sectarian . |
| 12 | You are also responsible for the formation of future adults and , although children may not seem terribly appreciative at the time , most of them , when grown up , look back with delight on simple childhood memories . |
| 13 | The issue may not seem very important , unless you happen to believe that the authority of a book rests entirely on its authorship . |
| 14 | With hindsight , it may not seem so . |
| 15 | This explanation may not seem very attractive . |
| 16 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 17 | In these days when money is n't worth what it was , it may not seem especially profligate to blow a few hundred thousands on transport modelling , but it is worth thinking about how else the government could have invested the money . |
| 18 | The effects may not seem to have anything to do with the work , but if disunity and depression occur it 's quite likely that there is an unseen cause . |
| 19 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 20 | It may not seem intrinsically puzzling why the story of Jesus should be broadcast in Holy Week . |
| 21 | Explaining the proposals , MCC secretary Col John Stephenson said : ‘ We have had to cater for all cricket , so it may not seem to be as tough as some people have been demanding . |
| 22 | The report to the DTI was due to be published shortly anyway , so , on the face of it , its premature appearance may not seem too important . |
| 23 | This may not seem much , but it indicates that it clearly sees the dangers of the competition . |
| 24 | You may not seem to have much in common with your cat or with the bacterium living in your gut , but in fact , in terms of basic biology , there is little to choose between you . |
| 25 | But , of course , all the probabilities can not be simultaneously reified in a single Universe : while it may not seem to matter much , on the cosmic scale , if an electron is in two places at once , in fact the later consequences of that tiny discrepancy might be enormous . |
| 26 | For our purposes here that may not seem to matter very much . |
| 27 | This may not seem relevant in the light of Stuart 's subsequent death , but let me assure you it is . |
| 28 | The child 's refusal to comply may not seem as bad as the child 's habit of answering back . |
| 29 | To a trainee at the interface this may not seem very different from a teaching machine or computer aided instruction but the logic or architecture of the driving system is different so that even more flexibility is available . |
| 30 | The previous chapter shows that there is an extremely wide range of roses , and although buying one may not seem a major event , costly mistakes can be made . |