Example sentences of "have seemed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 72 might have seemed boring but it put him in charge . |
| 2 | Such timber buildings would have been built using the accumulated experience of the community and would not have seemed such an intricate task to those who regularly witnessed the activity . |
| 3 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 4 | Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The south stand in particular looked like a midwinter Halifax v Northampton reserves match , and it must have seemed strange on tv . |
| 9 | It would have seemed cumbersome and redundant , both for the player and to the builder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have explained that the exemption might have seemed appropriate in Hale 's time but is incompatible with the status of married women today . |
| 12 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 13 | For anyone else this might have seemed ample funds for an expedition , but for Gould , the cautious man of commerce , even this nest-egg had to be used sparingly . |
| 14 | This triple set holds enough gems to keep you interested , the history is fascinating and even the disasters , which must have seemed ridiculous even then , have a certain kitsch value . |
| 15 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 16 | Obispal believed in the force of will , in his own ruthless aura ; and indeed , except for the evidence of lurid , puckered scar tissue across one cheek , he might have seemed invulnerable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | More subtle than corruption , but just as damaging to the judicial process , were variations in court procedure which must have seemed arbitrary to many Sri Lankans . |
| 19 | To have urged Jean-Claude would have seemed indecent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 24 | A statement that , to viewers from outside the north west of England , must have seemed bewildering . |
| 25 | Back in 1973 such fears would have seemed absurd . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 30 | But even if I 'd thought , it would n't have seemed right to go poking and prying with her only just dead . |