Example sentences of "have seemed " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Since dusk had by now fallen , the room must have seemed almost completely blacked out . ’ |
| 33 | Since dusk had by now fallen , the room must have seemed almost completely blacked out . ’ |
| 34 | That these people would one day be enthroned in the citadel of power could not have seemed conceivable to him . |
| 35 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 36 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Whatever lay ahead , it must have seemed that the worst was over . |
| 39 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | This position , which would have seemed contradictory to both Buffon and Linnaeus , requires some explanation . |
| 42 | However over-the-top he may have seemed , it was a vignette I could not have envisaged in Prague . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | However Charles saw his conquest of Saxony , it must have seemed to the Saxons to be a religious war , for they had no firm concepts of centralised government , only tribal nomadic territories , and certainly no need for the town , city and county based Frankish system . |
| 45 | Once again , it was fear of Charles and his military might that converted the Saxons , not love of Christ ( who must have seemed to them a very hard , vengeful god indeed ) . |
| 46 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 47 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 48 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 49 | The past world recorded in the rocks could not have seemed more alien . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | To a labouring woman , the world of high politics may have seemed distant , for she touches on it rarely . |
| 52 | The subscription provided an alternative to flattery and must surely have seemed to her the most manageable form of dependence . |
| 53 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 54 | Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal . |
| 55 | If the truth were known , Sir Henry had never wanted to be a country gentleman , which must have seemed very small beer after such a distinguished and varied military career . |
| 56 | Then it might have seemed that , despite the setbacks of that year , popular national liberation would ultimately lead to a Europe modelled on the most advanced powers , Britain , France , Holland and the rest : nation States , administered by popularly elected governments and founded in free-trade capitalism . |
| 57 | For those who regard ethnic origin as an important part of the explanation , this might have seemed odd , for Lenin was , despite recent disputes , solidly Russian , whereas much of the intellectual leadership of the rest of European Social Democracy was drawn from minorities — Rosa Luxemburg was Polish and Jewish , Piatakov was Ukrainian , Bauer and Karl Kautsky were Austrian and Jewish etc . |
| 58 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 59 | The price of national freedom might well have seemed impossibly high . |
| 60 | For those who survived , the heady talk and dreams , the vision of a global system and of revolutionaries without national allegiances , all that had inspired them before 1917 , must have seemed as remote and irrelevant as childhood . |