Example sentences of "[noun sg] may appear to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 2 | But remember — the retailer may appear to be giving something away , but he 's in business to make sales . |
| 3 | Such a horse may appear to be a rather solitary animal , but if the other horses had been removed in his absence , he would have been upset and uninterested in eating . |
| 4 | This guidance may appear to be rather imprecise but one particular application of it has resulted in the following list of parameters in two different groups . |
| 5 | So , for example , Bitstream 's Dutch may appear to be a perfect match for Linotype 's Times at 300dpi but when they are output at a typesetter 's resolution the minute differences will be more exaggerated . |
| 6 | Hawkeye may appear to be an amalgam of a couple of things , but in our minds , mine and Daniel 's , he is an Indian . |
| 7 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 8 | At first glance two tanks standing side by side in a room may appear to be the same . |
| 9 | No matter how ruthless and cruel the evolutionary process may appear to be , it nevertheless must be regarded as having been inevitably so . |
| 10 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 11 | While the Carrion 's behaviour may appear to be significant — and the players will try hard to convince themselves that this is the case — this is only a spoiling attack to draw the adventurers ' attention to the Castle . |
| 12 | Decay may also extend beyond the damaged area , and although timber may appear to be sound , it may cause problems later . |
| 13 | Therefore , what at first sight may appear to be a departure from antisemitism can , in fact , be a continuation of this strange and dangerous ideological tradition . |
| 14 | As we shall see later in this essay , however , there is a definite , and what at first sight may appear to be surprising , degree of isomorphism between the two perspectives . |
| 15 | The pace of work on the surgical ward may appear to be extremely rapid . |
| 16 | To them , the outside world may appear to be constituted of broad , impersonal processes . |
| 17 | For example , writing a letter or reading a book may appear to be solitary activities in which individuals exercise personal skills . |
| 18 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 19 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that a worker may appear to be at fault examination should begin with the supervisor immediately responsible for the area concerned . |
| 21 | Whilst desktop publishing at the low-end of the market may appear to be a careful juggling match between cost and quality of output , as indeed it is , the real determining factor about the suitability of the products is whether they actually provide some benefit that could not be achieved by other means . |
| 22 | What seems to you to be a very minor regulation may appear to be a major infringement of liberty to another . |
| 23 | Gumperz discusses this in the following terms : the bilingual phenomena we are concerned with are usually accompanied by extensive convergence and structural overlap … sentences in language pairs which seem quite distinct from the monolingual perspective may appear to be almost identical on the surface … |