Example sentences of "it may seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem over the top , but that 's because such things seem so much more terrible to a child . ’ |
| 2 | Peaceful though it may seem on the reef , it 's actually a battleground for even the most motionless creatures suggests LES HOLLIDAY . |
| 3 | All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered . |
| 4 | This introduction to a scene and the gradual unfolding of the action within it may seem to be a rather academic restriction on the freedom of the cameraman , but it is a most important movie-making technique because it gives the viewer the feeling of involvement as a participant in the exploration of the location . |
| 5 | Please forward any information , no matter how insufficient it may seem to ‘ Greater broad backed bookworm enquiry ’ QPBC bookstall . |
| 6 | Given these fears and the imminence of their object , it may seem to be rather worse than fiddling while Rome burns to raise in a series of lectures on law and disarmament that essay-worn jurisprudential topic ‘ is international law really law ? ’ . |
| 7 | It may seem to modern eyes a very lop-sided assessment of his position that the primacy , together with the lands and other rights of Canterbury , should occupy so prominent place in his thoughts . |
| 8 | It is even of importance to him what the moral tone of the whole society is — shocking as it may seem to libertarians to raise this issue — because freedom and individual diversity can only flourish in a society where there is a general recognition of their worth . |
| 9 | It may seem to some of you that there 's very little hope left for us in Krishnapur . |
| 10 | You and I have got a job , as Christians , to help to point people to the right way , narrow and difficult though it may seem to be . |
| 11 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 12 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 13 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 14 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 15 | She will recognize your being , and it may seem as if the light she is shining is a cold one at times . |
| 16 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 17 | Surprising as it may seem in the 1980s , there was great uncertainty both within Japan and outside about how long the boom would last . |
| 18 | Thus , surprising though it may seem in some respects , national courts are required to interpret in the light of Community directives even national legislation enacted before the directive was adopted . |
| 19 | To others it may seem like a recipe for disaster rather than for successful research . |
| 20 | If you make the wrong decision it may seem like the end of the word , but it is not — it can always be put right by moving again ! |
| 21 | In the same way when you are elderly and live alone , it may seem like too much bother to cook just for yourself . |
| 22 | MH : It may seem like that to you , but is does n't seem so to me ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 25 | It may seem like that early this week as one apparent catastrophe follows another while emotional fever runs high . |
| 26 | ‘ It may seem like that to you . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may seem from this book that the British have always been in Madeira in large numbers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |