Example sentences of "[vb infin] seemed [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 2 | His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies . |
| 3 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This position , which would have seemed contradictory to both Buffon and Linnaeus , requires some explanation . |
| 6 | That these people would one day be enthroned in the citadel of power could not have seemed conceivable to him . |
| 7 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 8 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1954 it was a long journey by rail from Glasgow to Paris , and it must have seemed longer to me . |
| 12 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |