Example sentences of "[modal v] seem like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For World Champion driver Jack Brabham and his Le Mans winning son David , Club 96 must seem like a stroll in the Park , but they were still keen to see the cars put through their paces . |
| 2 | I suppose in the absence of any dumpy Squat females Meh'Lindi must seem like a goddess to the little chap . ’ |
| 3 | Well one thousand seven hundred and fifty might seem like a lot of money , but there actually is quite a lot of work in dealing with an estate . |
| 4 | ROB ANDREW 'S current four-month ban from club competition could seem like a weekend break if the Rugby Union 's planned hardline against players who change teams is put into effect next year . |
| 5 | Adventure might seem exciting , but all too soon it could seem like a prison sentence , especially when it meant living aboard a ship with all manner of rogues and scoundrels . |
| 6 | The postwar generation , unschooled in the brutality of hardships of war and reconstruction , compares its lot with that of West Germans , with double their standard of living , rather than with their neighbours to the East , to whom the mountains of sausages and pigs ' trotters in butchers ' shops would seem like a dream come true . |
| 7 | Putting the old eight-valve 1.8i engine from the 3-Series in a 1.5t ‘ 5 ’ would seem like a recipe for dawdling . |
| 8 | To others it may seem like a recipe for disaster rather than for successful research . |
| 9 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 10 | Others have a mixture of feelings which tend to become more optimistic as time goes on , but at the initial discovery , pregnancy may seem like a disaster . |
| 11 | This may seem like a contradiction . |
| 12 | The notion of trophy wives , of executives ‘ trading in ’ their tired old spouses for younger , slinkier models , may seem like a joke , the product of some bizarre and implausible satire on misogyny . |
| 13 | That sum may seem like a lot of lei ( the Romanian currency that purchases next to nothing abroad ) but it still left the Romanians treading a financial tightrope . |
| 14 | " But " , he added , " I am afraid that to the aestheticians of these days you will seem like a sleepwalker , whom it is inadvisable , not to say dangerous , and , above all , impossible to follow . " |
| 15 | ‘ Not until next week — that will seem like a lifetime away to them ; but I am taking some of them out on Sunday up to Pelham Woods for a walk ; how about joining us ? ’ |
| 16 | It makes little or no difference to bed-wetting and denying the drink will seem like a punishment . |
| 17 | By comparison to what Top Class undertook earlier this year , the trip to Paris will seem like a canter up the road . |
| 18 | All too often large advances can seem like a ticket to stardom . |
| 19 | Of course the daft names of so many of his pieces feed the myth as do his occasional forays into what can seem like a kind of proto-minimalism . |
| 20 | Fertility treatment can seem like a lifeline to childless couples who desperately want a baby . |