Example sentences of "can seem [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In such an archetypal world , where ‘ good ’ is constantly and insecurely balanced in an eternal struggle against ‘ evil ’ , the objective explication of the rituals and symbols which surround and mystify police work can seem tantamount to a treasonable act .
2 Whether you 're slim or fat , there 's one figure problem that can seem impossible to beat .
3 Chaucer looked at in isolation can seem daunting , but Chaucer read in a cultural and historical context , with visual and other aids , could come alive as a great poet , speaking across six centuries , in a Gadamerian fusion of horizons .
4 Organising a change in diet can seem daunting , especially for working mothers who have little time to spend on complicated recipes .
5 Pottering down to the library to exchange Colin Thubron for Jonathan Raban or dropping in to the Jacaranda Tree for a mushroom omelette , everything can seem orderly and secure .
6 A common complaint among cancer patients is that the treatment can seem worse than the disease .
7 French racecourses , without bookmakers and with an undemonstrative crowd that tend to think of horses in terms of their number on the Pari-Mutuel rather than their name , can seem strange places to Britons .
8 After a piston engine , starting a turbine can seem strange .
9 Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema , Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages .
10 Their reduction of feminism to individual women 's experiences can seem simplistic to egalitarian feminists , but their clarity and adventurousness interests them .
11 For left to herself Nature can seem unruly and overwhelming .
12 Yet it can seem burdensome , or even dysfunctional .
13 Secondly , hemiplegic patients often have difficulties eating , chewing and swallowing , and this can seem repulsive to the carer .
14 Blame this renewed interest on a string of business scandals : Drexel Burnham Lambert , Guinness , Salomon Brothers , Robert Maxwell and Recruit , not forgetting Olivetti , Fiat and a big chunk of the rest of corporate Italy ; the list can seem endless .
15 At that entrance , every ship goes through a painstaking security check examination right down to molecular level , which can seem endless .
16 But they can seem that way .
17 Time can seem scarce to spend on these projects .
18 Ask open questions back — that is , ones that require longer answers like questions beginning with ‘ How ? ’ ( which can seem challenging ) .
19 Although panel interviews can seem intimidating , some of the questions you are most worried about may get forgotten because several people may be less well organized than one .
20 But with hindsight , the effects of such works can seem limited in comparison with the impact of other , more structural , changes that were taking place within British culture at the time .
21 As a result , impulses might be suppressed for so long that when they do eventually erupt , they can seem destructive .
22 This opinion can seem persuasive for a time , but we can not persist in it .
23 You can read it and not hear it and it can seem banal .
24 But the difficulty is great , and the greatest danger is that if it is not well performed the music can seem banal .
25 But there are also times when it can seem depressing .
26 The official forms of order can seem anomic to those who are systematically treated as non-persons , since , as they pursue their lives , they have no stake in the society for whose maintenance that order exists .
27 It can seem hard to say ‘ No ’ !
28 When you are on the outside looking in , the ways of the police can seem frightening and strange .
29 And if the weather is dog rough a mountain walk can seem less than appealing .
30 Including the planting of a green manure into a garden plan can seem difficult .
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