Example sentences of "may seem [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to bridge the gap between the work of specialists whose significance to a general understanding may seem obscure , and generalised accounts which may seem remote from the data . |
| 2 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 3 | This is sand-glass stuff and while each grain may seem small at the time there is an invincible logic to what happens in the end . |
| 4 | The payment of the deposit may seem simple to the conveyancer , but it regularly confuses the client . |
| 5 | The first choice — between tape , cassette or disc — may seem easy at the moment because videocassette is so clearly in the lead . |
| 6 | Given the apparent turbulence of much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with religious Reformations , agricultural riots and the Civil Wars that stability and prosperity may seem elusive to the historian but they were very apparent to many contemporaries , at least among the higher ranks . |
| 7 | So any gathering may seem suspicious to the police . |
| 8 | To the casual or occasional visitor to High Rocks , the season ticket agreement may seem irrelevant at the moment — just something to please climbers living nearby who go there regularly . |
| 9 | This may seem inevitable as the percentage of people working in the UK in service employment rose from 49 per cent in 1963 to almost 64 per cent in 1983 . |
| 10 | For example , the use of law in litigating the illegality of nuclear war may be sensible in the USA and quite foolish in the UK ; while reinforcing legal ideologies may seem sensible in the Netherlands , it may be dangerous in West Germany . |