Example sentences of "[vb infin] seemed like " in BNC.
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1 | His silence must have seemed like complicity . |
2 | After the Peninsular campaigns unravaged southern France must have seemed like Arcady . |
3 | Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal . |
4 | This desirable attitude dated from the days of the Victorian foundation of the system when dispersal of books which had been bought with ratepayers ' money would have seemed like culpable negligence . |
5 | In such circumstances , the new engineering which could apparently transform wetland wastes into sources of valuable crops to be sold to a growing population , must have seemed like something for nothing , and therefore irresistible . |
6 | Touching the face through that gauze would have seemed like sacrilege , so he chose the hair instead . |
7 | In outline , Ulverton must have seemed like a very good idea indeed . |
8 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |
9 | But from Ferrari 's point of view , this must have seemed like grave disrespect : if one legend runs a company , it has an inbuilt interest in creating accompanying , subsidiary legends . |
10 | In Edinburgh , where the Edinburgh Typographical Society heaved a sigh of relief when the Caledonian Press failed in 1865 , that must have seemed like the end of the matter . |
11 | If that was the Big Time , it would n't have impressed them too much — the journey would have seemed like an eternity . |
12 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |
13 | Her old self would have seemed like light-years away as well if Mr Know-it-all did n't keep reminding her that it was n't . |
14 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
15 | In this case it is still difficult to appreciate the worth of the savings plan because we do n't think in 1900 prices when the sum of £1010 ( the amount gained in interest ) would have seemed like a fortune ! |
16 | She had finished her lamb chops , and they were really top-hole , or she was so hungry that anything would have seemed like ambrosia , the food of the gods . |
17 | More recently ‘ The Little Red Province ’ might have seemed like a positive reference to the ideological orientation of the area . |
18 | In any other man it would have seemed like meaningless and artificial flattery , but Willi was incapable of being artificial . |
19 | About this time the appearance of the Mustang with the Packard Merlin engine must have seemed like manna in the desert to the Eighth Air Force . |