Example sentences of "have seemed [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the second law was originally put forward by the founders of thermodynamics , it must have seemed completely mysterious . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it must have seemed just like old times . |
| 4 | Twenty-five years ago , in flower-power hippie days , such idealism might have seemed slightly more in kilter with the times . |
| 5 | Thrush Green , to the uninitiated , might have seemed remarkably quiet that morning . |
| 6 | They both looked exotic even standing by the Nile and would have seemed remarkably out of place among us . |
| 7 | To most people he must have seemed simply drunk and he was bundled away from the equipment and dumped six feet below to the floor by a couple of the DJ team . |
| 8 | So it must have seemed even to them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I should think the amount of money spent subsidising the residents would have seemed rather odd to members as well . |
| 11 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even the much greater bias in the press may have seemed less obvious to them . |
| 14 | Twenty-two years earlier , in 1894 , and even as late as the spring of 1911 , the situation could hardly have seemed less promising . |
| 15 | It was the third part of the book that spoke about the danger of making changes ; in the summer of 1857 Part Three may have seemed less important than Part Two because the tsarist authorities had yet to give an unequivocal sign of their commitment to reform . |
| 16 | Verger it may have seemed once , down there in the sunlit nave … but up in the spaces … with no one to witness … it no longer needed that shape . |
| 17 | It 's obvious that what God said to Noah would have seemed extremely odd ; build a huge boat in a country far away from any substantial water . |
| 18 | And yet even to his relatives he must have seemed still in part a " foreigner " , with his accent and his clothes ; that was an aspect of his loneliness , never to be completely at home anywhere . |
| 19 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 20 | The past world recorded in the rocks could not have seemed more alien . |
| 21 | ‘ Tombola ’ would have seemed more dignified . |
| 22 | National councils were an obvious forum in which churchmen could attempt to secure lay assent to their wishes , and this can seldom have seemed more desirable than in the years around 1000 . |
| 23 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 24 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 25 | So Sergeant Juron 's excuse might indeed have seemed only too plausible … |
| 26 | A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Mrs Raffald was to her somehow unreal , a creature from another world ; and foreigners , even in their own country , must have seemed infinitely remote . |
| 28 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |
| 29 | Although pre-occupied with planning the invasion of the continent of Europe ( Operation Overlord ) which came on 6 June 1944 , Winston Churchill devoted his attention to a matter which must have seemed far removed from the great events by which he was surrounded . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the day-to-day concerns of the corps and family must have seemed far more pressing issues to the Burrows family than political manoeuvrings in the Salvation Army hierarchy half a world away . |