Example sentences of "[subord] it [modal v] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today this detached attitude to learning is being questioned even in subjects like science where it would seem to be most at home . |
| 2 | Although it may seem that her greatest loss may be that of her husband , it is usually recognized that she may well be unable to look at the implications of his death until she has dealt with those that happened before he died . |
| 3 | Although it may seem odd to call a jail sentence a ‘ reward ’ , that is how the men would see it if the alternative was a longer spell behind bars . |
| 4 | Although it may seem utterly unlikely , sometimes one can ‘ make fiends ’ with tinnitus . |
| 5 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 6 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 7 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 8 | Because of the close links between the Rover LTA School at Bisham Abbey and Wycombe High School , such a schedule is permitted , although it may seem unusual , to say the least , to most schoolchildren . |
| 9 | It is a fitting punishment , although it may seem harsh to you Humans . ’ |
| 10 | Although it may seem that the developments were exclusively within geomorphology this was not the case , because environmental reconstruction was increasingly shown to be dependent upon knowledge of the ways in which the soils and sediments as well as the surface morphology related to past systems of vegetation and to patterns of climate . |
| 11 | The pay-off in the long term is probably bad , although it may seem quite good in the short term . |
| 12 | Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida , it will be a highlight of your trip . |
| 13 | Although it may seem that the establishment of a foreign subsidiary exposes a firm to many of the risks which licensing minimises , a venture of this kind may offer the greatest potential . |
| 14 | These criticisms are , in many respects , justified although it would seem a bit far-fetched for historians to believe that the Labour Party , even in alliance with the Communist Party , could have forced a National government with an overwhelming parliamentary majority , to have capitulated to external pressure . |
| 15 | The Regulations do not deal with the form of this record and although it would seem desirable for the sole member to sign it , in case of dispute , there is no requirement of signature in the Regulations . |
| 16 | As a mother of adolescents myself , I now find this combination of intolerance and inaction extraordinary , although it would seem to confirm Selvini Palazzoli 's point that the parents in anorexics ' families are both unwilling to assume leadership . |
| 17 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 18 | The presence of vines is more difficult to explain as viticulture has yet to be proved positively in Roman Britain , although it would seem logical after the Edict of Probus . |
| 19 | He drew the conclusion that this cult was popular in Britain , although it would seem more likely that it was restricted to the Army . |
| 20 | Although it would seem an enormous sum to ordinary people it was a comparatively run-of-the mill sum to Mr. Ronson . |
| 21 | In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits . |
| 22 | Although it might seem highly unlikely , there are considerable similarities between the male and female genital anatomy — the different structures having started from similar beginnings during the development of the foetus of either sex . |
| 23 | Although it might seem impossible to get cooperation from such a child , given his usual behaviour , this should not put you off . |
| 24 | Although it might seem that the advantage was heavily enough with me , ensconced behind a swivel-gun , still there was that memory of improved musculature , of fantastic jumps and fast runs , of irascibility coupled with power . |
| 25 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 26 | Comparisons between the public and private sector also suggest that the question of incentives is more complex than it may seem from models such as Niskanen 's . |
| 27 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 28 | This is more difficult than it may seem . |
| 29 | For example , every time the telephone or doorbell rings , pause for two seconds before answering ( you may find this simple exercise harder than it might seem ! ) ; or , if you find yourself in a heated discussion or argument , count from ten to one before responding . |
| 30 | This is all much more simple than it might seem from the previous , necessarily precise , rules . |