Example sentences of "[modal v] have seemed [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 2 | My behaviour must have seemed as absurd to others as my physical appearance which , with only the goose-pimply face visible , was pathetic . |
| 3 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 4 | Even the much greater bias in the press may have seemed less obvious to them . |
| 5 | ‘ I should think the amount of money spent subsidising the residents would have seemed rather odd to members as well . |
| 6 | A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages . |