Example sentences of "[pers pn] might seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many other provisions of 1977 Geneva Protocol I might seem highly relevant to the question of nuclear weapons use , but there is a difficulty . |
| 2 | WILLIAMS : I would only say , sir , that my first motive was entirely such as became my function , however inexcusable I might seem . |
| 3 | You 'll find her not so well-tempered as she might seem ! ’ |
| 4 | She might seem remote to new readers when she talks proudly about being the last family at school to get a TV set , and the books open on the table at mealtimes in her parent 's house . |
| 5 | She might seem to you to be a vulgar woman , cautious , opportunist — I do n't know how she seems — but there is something ready to … . ’ |
| 6 | Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible . |
| 7 | Year after year we came home convinced that ‘ all-German ’ emotions , though officially discouraged on one side and dormant on the other , were far from dead , and that the post-war arrangements in central Europe were therefore a lot less permanent than they might seem . |
| 8 | Local elections , however insignificant they might seem sometimes , are actually very important . |
| 9 | These two extremes are not so contradictory as they might seem . |
| 10 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 11 | The Greeks pondered this image lovingly and urged Christians to realise that all our human ideas about God , no matter how inspiring or helpful they might seem to be , must be treated with the very greatest caution and cast aside if necessary . |
| 12 | With demand still growing rapidly , it was obvious that the lower levels of investment in electricity imposed by Gaitskell ( however necessary they might seem from his broader viewpoint ) were inadequate . |
| 13 | Such matters , trivial as they might seem to us , could not be left by even the most negligent monarch wholly to others . |
| 14 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 15 | One of its great strengths is to show how many of the traditional values help people make sense of the world around them — no matter how irrational they might seem to outsiders . |
| 16 | I think that they might seem to be an indulgence to supporters more than partners , even if they offered training/education . |
| 17 | Erm , well I do nt think these results are as good as they might seem . |
| 18 | Although they might seem a natural fit for RTZ , the sale might still go ahead after a review . |
| 19 | In theory , ministerial powers of appointment and dismissal can be used to discipline management , but in practice the powers are not as great as they might seem . |
| 20 | Branded items like Prize Grills , described as ‘ pure ground beef with a hint of seasoning ’ or ‘ two pieces of southern fried chicken ’ were not all they might seem from the packet descriptions , the prosecution alleged . |
| 21 | And there are also orphan countries there — poor places , backwaters , as it might seem , at opposite ends of the earth . |
| 22 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 23 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 24 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 25 | On first sight it might seem a case of plus ca change , plus c'est la meme chose . |
| 26 | Yet , looking back today , it might seem that the reaction to that birth control speech was a little over-heated . |
| 27 | The reproof of Beatrice is not , I conceive , as remote as it might seem from our own world . |
| 28 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 29 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 30 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |