Example sentences of "have seem a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past decade has seem a dramatic growth in the number of complainants trying to use judicial review , from about 500 applications a year in the early 1980s to 2,439 last year . |
| 2 | This will probably enrage a number of female readers but since her elevation to the Cabinet after the April General Election , Virginia has seemed a new woman . |
| 3 | To many , scepticism has seemed a blind alley and yet , somehow , unavoidable , and much of the literature of the twentieth century has paraded its nihilism as being intellectually justified by the power of the sceptical position . |
| 4 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 5 | Mr Cubbage must have seemed a good catch with his fine house , handsome looks and with his obvious wealth . |
| 6 | It must have seemed a heaven-sent opportunity with Mrs Figgis-Hewett shouting about breach of promise — if heaven sent is the word , ’ added Rose hastily , ‘ and our Mr Pipkin shouting about his rights . ’ |
| 7 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 8 | Measurement has been used to examine the nature of variation between pairs of saucer brooches , particularly the ornament variation ( Dickinson 1982 ) ; the study was based on 52 pairs of cast saucer brooches , but a number of problems were encountered with what might have seemed a straightforward piece of research ( ibid. 22–3 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I was saying that it must have seemed a terrible invasion of your privacy to find a pair of binoculars locked on your deck earlier . ’ |
| 10 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 11 | Angered by what must have seemed a monstrous betrayal , or a display of contemptible cowardice , Simeon turned upon them and persecuted them as traitors . |
| 12 | To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience . |
| 13 | Equally , Thames & Hudson 's ‘ biography ’ of Keith Haring may have seemed a brave piece of publishing to the general bookseller but , supported by T-shirts , badges , posters and cards from te Neues , it pulled in customers who would not normally have stepped inside a Blackwell shop , thanks largely to the non-book items and the extraordinary point of sale from T&H . |
| 14 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 15 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 16 | Scotland must have seemed a fair way away , and no chance this year of a real Hogmanay . |
| 17 | With the temperature touching seventy , twenty degrees higher than in London , it had seemed a ridiculous suggestion . |
| 18 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 19 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 20 | It had seemed a good idea , but how could she ask for Dana in a strange shop ? |
| 21 | It had seemed a good idea to set up his incident room in the local primary school . |
| 22 | In both cases , the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility ; he had not thought but known that , being what he was , he was psychologically incapable of doing it ; and then , without any apparent movement of the will , as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial , there had arisen before him , with perfect certitude , the knowledge ‘ about this time tomorrow , you will have done the impossible ’ . |
| 23 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 24 | More experimentally-minded workers have since found many soft spots in what had seemed a solid concept . |
| 25 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 26 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
| 27 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |
| 28 | on the plane to New York , it had seemed a ludicrous outpouring . |
| 29 | It had seemed a natural precaution . |
| 30 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |