Example sentences of "[pers pn] may seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may seem very reasonable at the moment , but I do n't feel it . |
| 2 | I 'm not as naïve as I may seem . ’ |
| 3 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |
| 4 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 5 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 6 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , she may seem like that now , ’ said Kraal one evening , ‘ but you wait till the autumn comes and the swifts and swallows start flocking before they begin their winter migration . |
| 8 | We are all sensitive creatures , however we may seem on the outside . |
| 9 | For we may seem to be many here , but we are few . |
| 10 | Many changes are not viewed as fundamental in today 's economic climate , so in theory we may seem to have the backing of the legal scheme , where in practice we have to cope with the interpretation which is weighed towards the employers and their economic arguments . |
| 11 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 12 | At first glance they may seem confining and restrictive , but more careful evaluation shows that the structure of laws enables us to live in a healthy and balanced way , in moderation and without excess . |
| 13 | Scholars such as Alcuin composed verses with many hidden references or acrostic patterns , and while they may seem trivial today , they represented a quest for pattern , meaning and subtle order , and were not mere exercises in wittiness . |
| 14 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 15 | They may seem inconvenient , but they are for your own safety . |
| 16 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 17 | Try some of the exercises which follow ; they may seem to make you slower at first , but not only will your speed increase as you get used to them , you may begin to look at problems in a different way . |
| 18 | In all this , as in everything else in their lives , you can help them best by listening with patience and sympathy , never dismissing their anxieties — however unreasonable they may seem to be — simply by telling them not to worry because you will always see that they are all right . |
| 19 | It is a funny world in which a child , however mature they may seem , is allowed to just go out without leaving an address or phone number and simply does not come home . |
| 20 | Such images may be the food which fuels paintings and stories , or they may seem to be glimpses into an unknown world , one that we have not yet met . |
| 21 | Otherwise you would do well to keep your eyes fixed on the grilled fish and chicken , boring as they may seem in comparison . |
| 22 | Other conundra m–y appear rather less cosmically' relevant ; they may seem to be of little importance yet , like Mercury 's orbit , may prove in the long term to be extremely important . |
| 23 | Mick Cleary argues that claims for the 1995 RWC are not as persuasive as at first they may seem |
| 24 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 25 | No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space . |
| 26 | Odd they may seem , but occur they do ! |
| 27 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 28 | Whilst they may seem expensive compared to the desktop publishing programs they can still work out cheaper because they include the word processing functions that few , if any , of the low-cost packages have built in . |
| 29 | They may seem a lot , but in fact they fit easily into a single bag . |
| 30 | In quite a short time these simple exercises , though they may seem ineffective to Western minds , will reward the individual with a tremendously increased performance , both in and out of the kwoon . |