Example sentences of "[modal v] seem [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-housing might seem to carry the ideological baggage of communes from decades past . |
| 2 | Paradoxically however , the breakdown in value consensus that generated the accountability movement might seem to require a new form of consensus if accountability demands are to be satisfied . |
| 3 | This might seem to show a strong awareness on their part of the workings of power : it is relative power that determines what is or is not socially valued . |
| 4 | The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection . |
| 5 | The fact that confinement prevents one from observing an isolated quark or gluon might seem to make the whole notion of quarks and gluons as particles somewhat metaphysical . |
| 6 | His most recent biographer , Carl Rollyson , in The Lives of Norman Mailer , had spoken of his ( Mailer 's ) fear that the end of the Cold War might seem to rob the long-awaited Harlot 's Ghost of its potency and relevance . |
| 7 | No one from either DEC or the museum could seem to give a clear idea of how complete the prototypes will be at the end of the research contract in April 1995 . |
| 8 | Whilst this is expecting a great deal for such groups , a measure of personal ministry to the individual plus group ministry to one another would seem to preserve the right balance . |
| 9 | The rule would seem to need a triple condition attached to it . |
| 10 | They are also relatively stable across contexts : for instance , a topless swim-suit would seem to exemplify the same sense of topless as ( a ) , and a topless barmaid the same as ( b ) . |
| 11 | It would seem to commemorate a humble farmer and his wife , truly two of Thomas Gray 's flowers ‘ born to blush unseen ’ , but that is far from correct for Barbra Gilmor is a character in the story of Ayrshire 's heritage , a woman with a unique claim to fame in the annals of the county . |
| 12 | Such ideas would seem to contradict the lateral persistence of facies about which so much fuss was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 13 | These enactments , particularly when seen alongside pledges in the Conservative Party 's 1987 general election manifesto ( and subsequently presented to Parliament ) to allow schools and council tenants to ‘ opt out ’ of local authority control , would seem to envisage a diminished role for elected local government . |
| 14 | This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers . |
| 15 | Right s s so , so part of what we , we , we will er be looking for is a kind of policy which would seem to favour the rich peasant , would seem to reassure the rich peasant , that , that 's |
| 16 | It was obviously an extremely fragile position : and this was an extremely fragile argument : but it was also one which would seem to require an unlimited US commitment . |
| 17 | Which would seem to reduce the whole matter of authenticity to the level of farce . |
| 18 | Although the time a child spends on task relates to many factors , including some beyond the teacher 's control , the organizational complexity obtaining in many primary classrooms would seem to play a significant part . |
| 19 | Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common . |
| 20 | Across the great divide the hotly coloured landscapes by Evgeni Dybski , from Konsyanza in Romania , and the even larger Fauvist Landscapes by Londonborn Lucy Jones , would seem to have a considerable number of points in common . |
| 21 | Alan Gordon James Watt would seem to have the ideal credentials for an international lock . |
| 22 | They would seem to have the same purpose . |
| 23 | This ahistorical theory of confirmation would seem to have the unappealing consequence that innumerable observations made on falling stones , planetary positions , etc. will constitute worthwhile scientific activity insofar as they will lead to increases in the estimate of the probability of the truth of the law of gravitation . |
| 24 | The degree of damage by chipping and splitting of the teeth is already greater , of its kind , than has been observed in the predator assemblages ( see Chapter 3 ) , and since it is combined with absence of breakage of the skulls and mandibles it would seem to present a different pattern of modification from the pellet assemblages . |
| 25 | At first thought , Belgium and Japan would seem to share no cultural connection . |
| 26 | Taken together , all these properties of LTP would seem to make a powerful case for its study as , at the very least , an intriguing model for memory . |
| 27 | Right s s so , so part of what we , we , we will er be looking for is a kind of policy which would seem to favour the rich peasant , would seem to reassure the rich peasant , that , that 's |
| 28 | ‘ That turn of phrase you have … would seem to indicate a good deal of education . ’ |
| 29 | and Torrington and Weightman would seem to indicate a significant emphasis on 1 , 2 3 and 4 with substantially less stress on 5 , 6 and 7 . |
| 30 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |