Example sentences of "must have seemed [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 More subtle than corruption , but just as damaging to the judicial process , were variations in court procedure which must have seemed arbitrary to many Sri Lankans .
2 True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading .
3 It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer .
4 It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees .
5 In 1954 it was a long journey by rail from Glasgow to Paris , and it must have seemed longer to me .
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