Example sentences of "have seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 2 | His silence must have seemed like complicity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 5 | Especially as voiced by an American who had disloyally taken the wrong side in a war just successfully completed ‘ for democracy ’ , the sentiments must have seemed — in 1948 , when The Pisan Cantos appeared — nothing short of shameless ! |
| 6 | General Holomisa , the first black officer to graduate from the South African army 's War College , must have seemed to be the perfect instrument , or stooge , of such a policy . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 8 | Even the much greater bias in the press may have seemed less obvious to them . |
| 9 | A priori it might have seemed logical that as these increase and spread , they would render the state pension superfluous and enable the system of compulsory redistribution which finances it to be discontinued progressively . |
| 10 | In June of that year Eliot met a figure from what must now have seemed to the London banker a remote part of his life . |
| 11 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 12 | But it was also a throwback to a form of behaviour which , however natural it might have seemed to officer cadets in the First World War , was excruciatingly embarrassing to succeeding generations of Magdalen men . |
| 13 | A few months ago even , this would have seemed improbable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After the Peninsular campaigns unravaged southern France must have seemed like Arcady . |
| 18 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In other words , they bowled them out for 83 , Extras top-scoring with 21 ; since most of the team either were or would be Test players , that feeling of contentment must have seemed well justified . |
| 22 | Back in 1973 such fears would have seemed absurd . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Typing would have seemed too formal . |
| 25 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 26 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 27 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 28 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 29 | What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger . |
| 30 | Any chance it might have seemed to have to influence an election had been disproved by Henry Wallace who , with Communist support , polled only one million Presidential votes in 1948 . |