Example sentences of "may appear [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although research may appear as logical analysis and mere statistics to you , clients sometimes endow it with a kind of magic . |
| 2 | Not only should there be equality of esteem and status between critic and readers , though the former may appear as first among equals , they should all be in possession of the subject of discussion . |
| 3 | Paullus himself may appear as one of the Roman riders . |
| 4 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 5 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 6 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 7 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 8 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 9 | To marketing departments the technological challenge associated with such an approach may appear at first quite daunting . |
| 10 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 11 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 12 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 13 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 14 | We realise that names may appear on several sheets if a Student failed a test and resat but the Tutor can easily strike out or blank out information not required by the Board . |
| 15 | A slight burn can cause a pale pink colour which may appear between 6–24 hours after exposure and can take 1–3 days to disappear , but may not cause peeling . |
| 16 | This may appear between 2–12 hours after exposure and last 3 days , with light peeling . |
| 17 | Instead of accepting what may appear to many to be a cynical bribe , Radnorshire must deliver a clear message that it will not sell its beautiful countryside or the quality of life of its residents for cash . |
| 18 | However it may appear to modern man , the measure of ruthless cruelty that may be manifest in the evolutionary processes , can not be labelled ‘ evil ’ . |
| 19 | However attractive its revamped image may appear to those disillusioned by the inadequacies of western scientific rationalism , the stereotype of the totally mystical tribesman remains as misleading and inaccurate as ever . |
| 20 | Given a slight negative movement of base level , underwater sandbanks may appear above high tide level and could be converted into offshore bars by wave action . |
| 21 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 22 | Complicated as the system may appear from this superficial view , it is one which has to be used and therefore needs to be understood . |
| 23 | The organisation was more complex than may appear from this summary . |
| 24 | So snowy owls may appear in southern Canada , Britain and southern Europe ( see above ) , while their populations remaining at home suffer poor breeding seasons due to overcrowding . |
| 25 | It was the first of such actions , however vague it may appear in remote retrospect , which introduced the concept of ‘ evil ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Development ’ may appear in any one writer 's successful novels ; in successful stories , I hold it to be a myth . ’ |
| 27 | A barrister may appear in any court , whereas a solicitor 's rights of audience are currently limited to the inferior courts . |
| 28 | The first defines a large number of elements which may appear in any kind of document — coinciding more or less with that set of discipline-independent textual features concerning which consensus has been reached . |
| 29 | As a consequence of reduced blood-clotting capacity , slowly developing painless swellings may appear in dependent areas such as the lower abdomen and intermandibular space , and on the limbs where bruising has occurred . |
| 30 | The following errors may appear in this file and an action is provided which may rectify the situation . |