Example sentences of "may have seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the much greater bias in the press may have seemed less obvious to them . |
| 2 | The First Band itself may have seemed of small significance at the time compared to parliament 's apparently much more crucial decision one week after it was signed to go ahead with the marriage negotiations . |
| 3 | However over-the-top he may have seemed , it was a vignette I could not have envisaged in Prague . |
| 4 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 5 | It may have seemed unusual to see Royal Scot locos on the GC but Annesley had several on its allocation in the mid 60's for operating Nottingham-Marylebone semifasts . |
| 6 | To a labouring woman , the world of high politics may have seemed distant , for she touches on it rarely . |
| 7 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 8 | The thought of ‘ introducing ’ timber wolves to the island and its inhabitants may have seemed rash at first , but then I introduced a boy with ‘ hate ’ tattooed on his knuckles to my parents once . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , they often had little experience in civil administration and although the system may have seemed effective in suppressing Lombard leadership , ultimately it acted against Frederick 's interests due to its inherent inefficiency and unpopularity . |
| 10 | But the most important thing is to learn to think in a new way — to use your right brain to assist you in dealing with subjects which may have seemed solely left-brained until now . |
| 11 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 12 | His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies . |
| 13 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 14 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 15 | Can you recall any suspicious incident , or comment , however trivial it may have seemed , which could help our investigation ? |
| 16 | In Anderson 's terms , they ‘ struggled ’ and education may have seemed a little remote to them as it was not freely available in most parts of the West Indies until the 1940s . |
| 17 | In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor . |
| 18 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 19 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 20 | In rejecting the " fallacy of objectivity " in stylistics , we may have seemed to be labouring the obvious . |
| 21 | Pericles overlapped with Ephialtes , and both with Kimon ; and for a while it may have seemed feasible to operate Kimonian politics alongside those of his more radical competitors . |
| 22 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The idea may have seemed simple but its execution was not . |
| 25 | Equally , Thames & Hudson 's ‘ biography ’ of Keith Haring may have seemed a brave piece of publishing to the general bookseller but , supported by T-shirts , badges , posters and cards from te Neues , it pulled in customers who would not normally have stepped inside a Blackwell shop , thanks largely to the non-book items and the extraordinary point of sale from T&H . |
| 26 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |
| 27 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 28 | For many people the launch of the Capital Guarantee Bond on 30 October may have seemed a fairly simple process . |
| 29 | If this is true , then it strongly suggests that things are indeed not as simple as they may have seemed . |
| 30 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |