Example sentences of "may seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are radical suggestions which may seem impractical ; but the status quo may be indefensible . |
| 2 | The realist state-centric model may seem least appropriate to analysis of contemporary political processes . |
| 3 | I am aware that my characterization of a complex object — statistically improbable in a direction that is specified not with hindsight — may seem idiosyncratic . |
| 4 | A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective . |
| 5 | This may seem frustrating , but the package does encourage you to be inquisitive and venture into new subjects . |
| 6 | This may seem familiar — as indeed it should , because we have discussed the particle sea in a rather different context : as the state of existence before' the Big Bang . |
| 7 | Those words may seem familiar to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker . |
| 8 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 9 | The discourse strategies of a foreign speaker may seem refreshing exactly because they do not conform to conventions of the culture whose language they are learning ; on the other hand they may cause serious misunderstanding and breakdown of communication . |
| 10 | … such an arrangement would be to the advantage of the WEA , provided that the partnership in the Joint Committee is genuine and that the WEA retains and exercises the right of providing its own classes as may seem appropriate . |
| 11 | While all this activity may seem appropriate , it can not be stressed too often that ‘ Unless the Lord builds the house , its builders labour in vain ’ Psalm 127:1 |
| 12 | A newspaper , because it is a ‘ news ’ medium , may seem appropriate for a sale or a new product 's launch , where a magazine might not . |
| 13 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |
| 14 | It may seem odd that a music publishing company would want a photograph , but Doyle points out that the look of an artist may be important to develop an act 's recording career . |
| 15 | It may seem odd that what we heard was such a revelation . |
| 16 | It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on . |
| 17 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |
| 18 | Although it may seem odd to call a jail sentence a ‘ reward ’ , that is how the men would see it if the alternative was a longer spell behind bars . |
| 19 | It may seem odd to think of battering as an attempt to get close . |
| 20 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 21 | The Mains-Kirton pairing may seem odd , for Mains played all his major rugby at fullback and Kirton as an inside back . |
| 22 | It may seem odd to find these aquatic animals appearing in the desert , but the eggs of these shrimps probably lie all over the desert , collecting in the depressions which ultimately become pools . |
| 23 | It may seem odd to fret about this while economies are still sluggish , but in past recoveries governments have often kept their foot on the accelerator too long . |
| 24 | With modest growth and an unemployment rate of around 7% , it may seem odd to worry about inflation . |
| 25 | The market 's exuberance in the face of ‘ brown-outs ’ may seem odd . |
| 26 | It may seem odd , but the martial arts , even the hard ones , are not about conflict . |
| 27 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 28 | Such logic may seem odd . |
| 29 | It does not make particularly amusing reading , and at first glance it may seem odd that Eliot was willing to enter the spirit of such occasions . |
| 30 | It may seem odd at first sight that women should actively promote their own exclusion from the trade . |