Example sentences of "may seem a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concrete may seem a straightforward material to use ; you just spread it , level it , and 24 hours later , the path can be walked on . |
| 2 | In contrast to television , radio may seem a simple matter . |
| 3 | For those contemplating a university course , graduation may seem a long way off — 1997 and beyond — and thoughts of what to do afterwards may understandably be equally distant . |
| 4 | To wait until their children are in the secondary stage may seem a long time for delay . |
| 5 | It is an aspect of privacy we should take more seriously ; it may seem a frail distinction to draw when armed police can batter down your front door on suspicion that a wanted person may be inside , but at least it gives the possibility of some redress , and may make it more difficult to achieve the total surveillance of society . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it may seem a trite remark , ’ he answered , slowly , and there was a harshness in his voice she had never heard before , ‘ but mothers usually know best . ’ |
| 7 | Whilst it may seem a far cry from the appalling civil war that has torn Yugoslavia apart or the collapse of the Soviet Union into an uneasy Commonwealth of Independent States , it seems that sport , and rugby in particular , can play its part in preventing the exaggeration and exploitation of nationalist feeling on international occasions . |
| 8 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |
| 9 | It may seem a small point when a man is dead , but all other records have always given 17 June as the presumed date of death . |
| 10 | More importantly , their work still has considerable validity as a theoretical alternative to Formalism and structuralism , an alternative which may seem a great deal closer to many readers ' and critics ' feelings about literature and life . |
| 11 | The importance of the unconscious for political realities of industrial enterprises may seem a tenuous link but objects of feeling that are retained in the unconscious , and constitute our psychic reality , are : |
| 12 | This may seem a surprising claim in view of the earlier experiments we mentioned above ( e.g. Herriot , 1969 ) which support an opposite conclusion ; so we will consider the experimental results on which Forster and Olbrei base this claim with some care . |
| 13 | This may seem a ridiculous assumption but , where there is an unvarying food supply , nature 's response is often somewhat like this . |
| 14 | Your first solo exhibition may seem a daunting prospect but it is an event to which every serious artist aspires . |
| 15 | Taking on board yet another set of demands and perspectives entailed in marketing may seem a daunting task . |
| 16 | Fire extinguishers may seem a good idea , but there are so many types to be used for so many different sorts of fires that I would be nervous of escalating a fire , rather than killing it , by using the wrong type of extinguisher . |
| 17 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 18 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 19 | This may seem a strange way of looking at it , since we are used to viewing the police and the military as our protectors ; but we can not avoid the conclusion that , ultimately , the police and the military maintain sufficient force to implement the decisions of the state . |
| 20 | On the face of it this may seem a strange tactic for a side who , on paper , possess probably the most lethal front-line in the Premier League , but Graham , still likely to be without ankle-injury victim Paul Merson , is seeking to restore stability to stop the slump . |
| 21 | It may seem a strange usage , too , because feminists usually make a distinction between sex ( anatomical , biological ) and gender ( social , cultural ) . |
| 22 | To many modern readers it may seem a strange book , perhaps even a repulsive one with all its blood-sacrifices . |
| 23 | Put in those terms it may seem a strange statement , but it is one of the essential differences between true epics and novels , which deal , on the whole , with the world of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 24 | For those who see Methodism only through the solid shopkeeper image of Victorian times , this may seem a strange assertion . |
| 25 | This may seem a jaundiced view , but the evidence is disturbing . |
| 26 | This may seem a revolutionary step , but it is surely the most significant step we can take to ensure that , in the words of The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , education ‘ is seen by pupils to meet their present and prospective needs ’ . |
| 27 | It is a good idea to view a property more than once , at different times of the day , as what may seem a peaceful haven during the day , when everyone is out , turns into a nightmare in the evening , when families come in and televisions are turned on . |
| 28 | This may seem a curious idea . |
| 29 | All this may seem a curious way for a species to handle its genes . |
| 30 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |