Example sentences of "strange [subord] it may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 2 | Strange though it may seem , it sometimes pays to slow right down before rounding . |
| 3 | However , strange though it may seem , whenever criticism , favourable or unfavourable , is levelled at any sort of production , very rarely does the Designer 's effort get a mention . |
| 4 | Strange as it may seem , we 've lived rather longer than you , we do know what 's — ’ |
| 5 | Strange as it may seem , history is often discounted when marriage is threatened by crisis . |
| 6 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 7 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 8 | Strange as it may seem , I was struck more by this man 's preoccupation with opium than by his appearance or choice of language . |
| 9 | On one occasion a boy I rather liked looked at me and said to his group , ‘ Bellezza d'asino ’ ( beauty of a donkey ) , which , strange as it may seem , was meant in Parma as a compliment . |
| 10 | You see , strange as it may seem , I always felt I belonged here . |
| 11 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 12 | And Brighton , strange as it may seem , became , in Britain , one of the small pioneer centres where these first movies were made . |
| 13 | Strange as it may sound , compulsive shoppers very often do n't even wear their look — in contrast , of course , to the average shopper who flaunts a new frock or jumper to death . |
| 14 | The law of value ‘ helps ’ us and — strange as it may sound — thereby prepares its own downfall . |
| 15 | Strange as it may sound , there is such a thing as ‘ successful ’ grieving . |