Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] seem [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may often seem that some critical practitioners within established disciplinary frameworks which insist on treating literary texts as documents or , oppositely , as eternal works of art or according to a closely defined theoretical structure , proffer pronouncements on texts and history which are exclusively self-confident and definitive . |
| 2 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 3 | It might therefore seem that the best , and the only rational , solution is to abandon all references to identity in connection with meaning . |
| 4 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 5 | It would also seem that the time before adoption for such children is quite long , that some for whom adoption was the plan will not be adopted even though they will stay with their new families , and that long-term support by specialist workers will be necessary for many of these children . |
| 6 | It would also seem that some proteins are free to move laterally within the membrane . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that there is an implied restraint as between Y and X and between X and Z and it would equally seem that the benefit of the implied covenant between Y and X would pass to Z upon the sale of goodwill . |
| 8 | It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail . |
| 9 | Provided always that the signatures are contemporaneous with the documents , it would thus seem that Molla Fenari was appointed to the kadilik between those two dates . |
| 10 | The warrior pharaoh Tuthmosis III referred to the hour indicated by the sun 's shadow at a critical juncture of one of his campaigns in Asia , and it would therefore seem that he carried with him a portable sun-clock . |
| 11 | In their attachment to frontal teaching and related methods it would therefore seem that the junior highs outsinned the devil highs themselves . |
| 12 | It would almost seem that by the establishment of Elementary Schools and of the Manchester Grammar School , the necessity for the Stockport School has been superseded , but , if that be not so , it is extraordinary that the inhabitants of Stockport are unwilling or unable to aid the institution . " |
| 13 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |