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 . |