Example sentences of "[modal v] seem a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must seem a promising start for RDS for which first receivers appeared only in 1987 . |
| 2 | That now must seem a distant , simpler time compared with the messy , open-ended tasks facing today 's UN . |
| 3 | She finished her letter by saying that this must seem a very small matter to people suffering serious illnesses but she resented not feeling able to complain because of her fear of being seen as childish or neurotic . |
| 4 | Those days must seem a long time ago . |
| 5 | Whatever the similarities from the point of view of the linguist , from the point of view of the learner acquiring a new dialect must seem a very different process from acquiring a new language . |
| 6 | The little room under the eaves must seem a refuge , Summerchild 's diffidence and deference and fine copper hair a welcome relief . |
| 7 | With confused feelings , she smiled back , but she found herself staring in what she realised must seem a naïve display of stunned surprise . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry to bother you with what must seem a difficulty of my own making , and enclose a S.A.E. for your reply . |
| 9 | She is entrusted , on one occasion , with what might seem a rudimentary version of one of his own opinions . |
| 10 | On first sight it might seem a case of plus ca change , plus c'est la meme chose . |
| 11 | That might seem a needless question to ask . |
| 12 | It might seem a little crazy to move house rather than decorate the kitchen , and then finish up taking on an almost derelict house instead . |
| 13 | Girarrosto , at No. 31 Corso Venezia ( Palazzo Castiglioni is at No. 47 ) is Tuscan , which might seem a bit unreasonable in this , the capital of Lombardy . |
| 14 | It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him . |
| 15 | It might seem a matter of logic that Sicily and Scotland can not require the same performance features of tiles . |
| 16 | It might seem a daunting task , but in recent years climatologists have begun an intensive study of temperature changes on Earth . |
| 17 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |
| 18 | If you have a frequency meter of any sort , check at pin 10 of IC1 to see that the frequency is between 20kHz to 25kHz ; this might seem a big variation but the design works over this range . |
| 19 | Considering the overall sound quality and taking into account how much is in such a compact package the retail price of a touch under £1500 might seem a tad high , but it compares more than favourably with reel-to-reel machines aimed at the same market . |
| 20 | ‘ It might seem a little odd , but really , the blending of so many different nationalities is what the University and the Varsity Match is all about , ’ says the 23-year-old hooker . |
| 21 | Golf courses might seem a very obvious use for redundant farm land , but where they are most needed — in the crowded South East — they have met most resistance from the environmental and Nimby ( not in my back yard ) lobbies . |
| 22 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 23 | There are few diamonds to be found , nor is there much cocoa ; and considering the amount of space the Pacific commands it might seem a little odd ( unless one remembers the geology ) that only a fifth of the world 's proven oil reserves are there . |
| 24 | Although this might seem a ‘ safe ’ option compared to buying Goblins , this is n't really the case . |
| 25 | Numerous theorists approach their work armed with interpretations or modified versions of Marxism , and to stick so firmly to elucidating Marx 's own texts might seem a rather scholastic project , in the pejorative sense of that phrase . |
| 26 | It might seem a smaller risk to stick to stores and wait for a retailing boom to return . |
| 27 | To a man from Mars , the ocean might seem a thoroughly sensible place to dispose of rubbish . |
| 28 | This might seem a rather feeble threat . |
| 29 | The Janáček Sonata might seem a more likely candidate for Zimmermann and Lonquich 's powerful projection and strong expressive contouring . |
| 30 | Though he might seem a minor political nuisance , his name was on the list of those to be rounded up and interned . |