Example sentences of "would have seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | However if this way of jumping from two feet to two feet had not been combined with well picked-up pas de bourrée piqués and relevés retirés as well as extremely accurate , quick ports de bras with straighter and more angled than rounded arms , they would have seemed out of place . |
| 2 | A few months ago even , this would have seemed improbable . |
| 3 | Since then , and until very recently , Europe has been united against the fear , which would have seemed as absurd in previous centuries as it still does to many in the 1980s , of Russia . |
| 4 | In the early 1980s Lord Hanson 's £3.5billion successful bid for Consolidated Goldfields would have seemed unlikely and Sir James Goldsmith 's audacious £13billion offer for BATs impossible . |
| 5 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 6 | For one thing , it would have seemed to count against the idea of immortality , for it was commonly argued that only something immaterial could be immortal . |
| 7 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 8 | Back in 1973 such fears would have seemed absurd . |
| 9 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 10 | Typing would have seemed too formal . |
| 11 | There is no good reason for it other than that given by Bertrand Russell in that more troubled decade : ‘ The world in which we are now living would have seemed , before 1945 , too horrible to be endured . |
| 12 | This position , which would have seemed contradictory to both Buffon and Linnaeus , requires some explanation . |
| 13 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 14 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 15 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 16 | This desirable attitude dated from the days of the Victorian foundation of the system when dispersal of books which had been bought with ratepayers ' money would have seemed like culpable negligence . |
| 17 | The family of which Coleridge became a member would have seemed exceptional even had he never been born . |
| 18 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 19 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
| 20 | Certain models have dropped to prices that would have seemed inconceivable even in late 1991 . |
| 21 | A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages . |
| 22 | Touching the face through that gauze would have seemed like sacrilege , so he chose the hair instead . |
| 23 | Her sudden head movement would have seemed unnecessary , paranoid . |
| 24 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 25 | Many of those calls would have seemed harmless enough , even to the most cynical eavesdropper . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 28 | In 1094 however such a future would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 29 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 30 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |