Example sentences of "it must seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 2 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , my dear , I do understand how it must seem hard to you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 5 | At this point it must seem paradoxical that atomic nuclei containing several closely packed protons exist at all . |
| 6 | To someone who holds the Cartesian view it must seem that only something we would hardly call ‘ perception ’ reflects the philosophical truth of the matter . |
| 7 | To a convinced empiricist it must seem that the only alternative is behaviourism : believing , expecting , hoping , and so on are not inner things , but outer things , things we learn about by looking at , and listening to , people — including ourselves . |
| 8 | It must seem natural that the profession should direct its attention to needs of prisoners appearing on overnight charges … |
| 9 | Amazing as it must seem to non-Americans , skirmishing for the Republican presidential nomination for the 1996 election has already broken out . |
| 10 | A further element of Lele thought illustrates another common principle of cosmological logic or , if you prefer , of religious symbolism : tribal systems of thought , and perhaps all closed or relatively closed systems of belief , tend to exhibit a strong and , as it must seem to some , edifying concern for tidiness . |
| 11 | It must seem I never try to escape . |
| 12 | No book which offers an overarching educational theory of higher education can afford to neglect teaching and learning ; or so it must seem . |
| 13 | ‘ I know it must seem strange , ’ said his friend . |
| 14 | For a master criminal , it must seem like the Golden Age . |
| 15 | I imagine it must seem like the blink of an eye to a ghost , do n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | To the public it must seem incredible that this sort of thing can happen but all too often the loopholes in our laws are exploited by rogues like the crew of Sea Rover . |
| 17 | The majority of contemporary social anthropologists regards the distinction between " primitive " man and man in general as anachronistic and untenable , yet to the newcomer it must seem that their methods of research and the themes to which they devote most of their attention take this distinction for granted . |
| 18 | I know it must seem an unnecessary fuss to you , Dana , but it 's a big opportunity for me and I want everything to be as perfect as possible , ’ she said urgently . |
| 19 | ‘ It must seem like that , Claudia , and I admit I did n't think about your gown . ’ |
| 20 | It must seem dull from the outside . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it must seem so . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose it must seem so . ’ |
| 23 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 24 | ‘ The local fair always appears in the square at Meet weekend and for a child it must seem absolutely magic . |
| 25 | To the uninitiated it must seem absurd . |