Example sentences of "have often seemed " in BNC.

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1 This task has often seemed to combine the pedantry of library theory with the incomprehensibility of computer science .
2 It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae .
3 Ironically , in the West , the sale of videotape recorders has often seemed to grow in step with industrial unemployment .
4 Given the pressures of numbers , limited resources for positive work in education and trade training , limited work opportunities and staff and prisoner unrest , even that modest aim has often seemed unattainable .
5 Historically , higher education has often seemed reluctant to admit new fields of study and enquiry ; witness the problems faced by the natural sciences and professional fields in nineteenth-century Oxbridge , or by the social sciences in the twentieth century .
6 The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ .
7 Such an explanation has often seemed plausible ( though less so since the abandonment of this cheap food policy upon entry into the EEC ) .
8 From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all .
9 We must have often seemed to deny them the obedience and ‘ proper respect ’ demanded by the institution , for we obviously did not emulate their style and in effect were a vision of impurity existing right inside the body of the organization .
10 This highlights the fact that there had been a practical separation between the organizations of business and artistic concerns , which in earlier types of organization had often seemed to be , and in many cases clearly were , united .
11 Friday had come round so quickly again — such a contrast to her old life when the week had often seemed boringly endless .
12 Because of their attachment to Judaism 's holy places , the religious parties have often seemed closer to the Greater Israel policy of the Likud than to Labour , with its belief in exchanging territorial concessions for peace .
13 The issues on which the schism turned have often seemed to Western scholars so insignificant as to be almost laughable .
14 While the adventure depends like any other fictional form on this agreed rearrangement of reality , it also works on conventions of its own which have often seemed to take it still further away from that reality .
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