Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 2 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 3 | He inclined his head , and the gesture should have seemed courteous , yet Charity was struck by a certain mockery in it , and in the eyes that were narrowed on her face with unrelenting and not totally flattering interest . |
| 4 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 5 | His silence must have seemed like complicity . |
| 6 | Especially as voiced by an American who had disloyally taken the wrong side in a war just successfully completed ‘ for democracy ’ , the sentiments must have seemed — in 1948 , when The Pisan Cantos appeared — nothing short of shameless ! |
| 7 | General Holomisa , the first black officer to graduate from the South African army 's War College , must have seemed to be the perfect instrument , or stooge , of such a policy . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After the Peninsular campaigns unravaged southern France must have seemed like Arcady . |
| 11 | In other words , they bowled them out for 83 , Extras top-scoring with 21 ; since most of the team either were or would be Test players , that feeling of contentment must have seemed well justified . |
| 12 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 13 | Since dusk had by now fallen , the room must have seemed almost completely blacked out . ’ |
| 14 | Since dusk had by now fallen , the room must have seemed almost completely blacked out . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 16 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 17 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 18 | Whatever lay ahead , it must have seemed that the worst was over . |
| 19 | However Charles saw his conquest of Saxony , it must have seemed to the Saxons to be a religious war , for they had no firm concepts of centralised government , only tribal nomadic territories , and certainly no need for the town , city and county based Frankish system . |
| 20 | Once again , it was fear of Charles and his military might that converted the Saxons , not love of Christ ( who must have seemed to them a very hard , vengeful god indeed ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal . |
| 23 | If the truth were known , Sir Henry had never wanted to be a country gentleman , which must have seemed very small beer after such a distinguished and varied military career . |
| 24 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 25 | For those who survived , the heady talk and dreams , the vision of a global system and of revolutionaries without national allegiances , all that had inspired them before 1917 , must have seemed as remote and irrelevant as childhood . |
| 26 | In 1887 its commanding presence must have seemed the very epitome of British rule . |
| 27 | But , very strange it must have seemed , certainly the first time you walked in . |
| 28 | His future success as one quarter of The Smiths must have seemed an impossible dream in those days . |
| 29 | A statement that , to viewers from outside the north west of England , must have seemed bewildering . |
| 30 | No doubt such people must have seemed slow-witted . |