Example sentences of "seem surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 2 | It might seem surprising , but day-dreaming can actually be useful . |
| 3 | Given the range of institutions and the varying sets of social relations involved , it does not seem surprising that there should have been an increase in the diversity of local politics . |
| 4 | The energies required to probe the nucleus are therefore high , so it may at first seem surprising that visible light with its moderate energies can reveal important information about the nucleus . |
| 5 | At first it may seem surprising to find a Gentile so involved in Jewish affairs but it was not all that unusual . |
| 6 | What might seem surprising is that the coat is white . |
| 7 | Given the uncertain state of many world economies this optimism may seem surprising , but as Swiss dealer Ernst Beyeler says , ‘ There is still enormous personal wealth in the world . |
| 8 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 9 | This may seem surprising in view of the widespread acceptance of monarchy . |
| 10 | Given the Bosnian Serbs ' previous actions , their defiance may not seem surprising . |
| 11 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 12 | My choice of industry might seem surprising , in view of my wish to make some sort of contribution to the world 's well-being . |
| 13 | This may seem surprising , but I do n't think it matters — the important thing is that you 're right in thinking that mixing with a group of people is the way to get over your problems . |
| 14 | This may seem surprising in view of Adenauer 's previous support for supranationalism , but the Chancellor saw Franco-German co-operation as the vital element in his European policy . |
| 15 | This may seem surprising if we are used to assuming that girls only choose to study the arts because society ‘ expects ’ it of them ; it also contradicts Snow 's ( 1959 ) argument that scientists were more politically radical than the literary intelligentsia . |
| 16 | This may seem surprising since the Bail Act is thought to have contributed to a fall in both the actual and proportionate use of custodial remands . |
| 17 | To the uninitiated this may seem surprising and unfair , but to those who have been through the mill the situation is very familiar . |
| 18 | This may seem surprising in view of the fact that the British tend to move house less frequently than people in some other countries like the USA and , more particularly , in view of the wide range of government measures that aim to support the existing patterns and restrict the scale of new urban expansion , such as regional policy , green belts and the urban programme . |
| 19 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 20 | The word gigantic may seem surprising for a cell , especially when you remember that 10 million bacterial cells could sit on the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 21 | Since all body cells contain the same genes , it might seem surprising that all body cells are n't the same as each other . |
| 22 | At first sight it may seem surprising that if , as I am claiming , the superego is underdeveloped in welfare totalitarianisms because the means of state coercion are overdeveloped , it should nevertheless need to be dissolved in anything . |
| 23 | The results for patients suspected of having diabetic gastroparesis — more patients with rapid than with slow emptying — might seem surprising but illustrates an important consideration that is too easily overlooked . |
| 24 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 25 | it does seem surprising that the academic discipline of women 's studies , now well into its second decade of exciting and innovative interdisciplinary work has given rise to so little in print 1 . |
| 26 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 27 | Such a disrespectful term might seem surprising in this essentially respectful essay . |
| 28 | Although this may seem surprising it is similar to some of the dissociation profiles seen with poly(dG-dC) [ 13 ] . |