Example sentences of "would have seemed " in BNC.
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| 31 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 32 | For this simple , self-evident reason , the birth of twins , and especially identical twins , would have seemed to the ancients nothing short of miraculous — a phenomenon attesting to some intervention of divine origin . |
| 33 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 34 | One can see that , fanciful though the idea of the co-operative community is bound to look in the light of the later development of the Industrial Revolution , in 1814 when he wrote A New View of Society that idea would have seemed quite credible . |
| 35 | At a time when spelling was so much more fluid , it would have seemed sensible to have changed letters for the sake of legibility . ) |
| 36 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 37 | If that was the Big Time , it would n't have impressed them too much — the journey would have seemed like an eternity . |
| 38 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 39 | Today , the Front National in France has achieved electoral success and national prominence , which would have seemed incredible fifteen years ago . |
| 40 | To have urged Jean-Claude would have seemed indecent . |
| 41 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 42 | ‘ But even that is not as hard as recognising that the sum of human misery has probably been increased by what we did , incredible though that would have seemed to us then . ’ |
| 43 | They both looked exotic even standing by the Nile and would have seemed remarkably out of place among us . |
| 44 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 45 | Even under the firmly established Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher , backbenchers showed a degree of independence that would have seemed remarkable thirty years earlier . |
| 46 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 47 | It would have seemed cumbersome and redundant , both for the player and to the builder . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The idea that the army should be a microcosm of the nation , or representative of it in any true sense , would have seemed to most contemporaries ridiculous or even shocking . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 52 | It would have seemed … eerie . |
| 53 | To give him his due , he made no attempt to hide this consuming interest of his : it would have seemed pointless , for he assumed that everyone else was similarly obsessed , and would see through his attempts at concealment . |
| 54 | I wanted to come home when we finished playing , but it would have seemed rude not to stay to tea when the granny had made it . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | ‘ Tombola ’ would have seemed more dignified . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 ! |
| 59 | Then he saw Peter 's face , the excitement in his eyes , and remembered the morning and the crashing gallop through the wood , and being aware afterwards of what he had done , something that would have seemed impossible before . |
| 60 | He found it difficult to know how to react ; when he received a bonus he did n't tell them , it would have seemed unfair . |