Example sentences of "it must have seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 4 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 5 | Whatever lay ahead , it must have seemed that the worst was over . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 9 | But , very strange it must have seemed , certainly the first time you walked in . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 11 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 12 | With Palmerston in the key position and intimate with the defects of the old Foreign Office , it must have seemed likely that the rebuilding programme would be pursued with vigour . |
| 13 | AT THE OUTSET it must have seemed a superbly simple idea . |
| 14 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 15 | Down in Brighton or Bath , it must have seemed , nothing had changed . |
| 16 | It must have seemed to him that Vincent had gained immeasurably in strength and confidence since their last confrontation . |
| 17 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 18 | Outwardly it must have seemed that I had overcome my emotional difficulties and , apart from the mysterious phenomenon of my continuing thinness , had become a bright , helpful , well-adjusted member of the school . |
| 19 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 20 | But it must have seemed just like old times . |
| 21 | So it must have seemed even to them . |
| 22 | Begun in the 1930s , it must have seemed after 1940 , during the Nazi occupation of continental Europe , as if nature were imitating the nightmare of art ; and in the end it celebrates a victory . |
| 23 | It must have seemed that everything he had ever worked for was falling apart . |
| 24 | After the prince returned to England it must have seemed increasingly unlikely that he would live to inherit the throne , and the prospect of Richard 's succession as a child served only to increase uncertainty . |
| 25 | When the second law was originally put forward by the founders of thermodynamics , it must have seemed completely mysterious . |
| 26 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 27 | To his hosts , it must have seemed a possibility , at least , that in William Joyce they had their most important catch of all the queer fish at Charlottenburg . |
| 28 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 29 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 30 | Sea pens were given their names when people wrote with quills and very apt it must have seemed , for not only are they shaped like feathers but their skeleton is flexible and horny . |