Example sentences of "seemed like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SPAIN 'S five years in the European Community have seemed like a long honeymoon . |
| 2 | Max 's conversion must have seemed like a second betrayal . |
| 3 | What Wilcox called the machine shop had seemed like a prison , and the foundry had seemed like hell . |
| 4 | In outline , Ulverton must have seemed like a very good idea indeed . |
| 5 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |
| 6 | Sailing has always seemed like a decent way of spending time to me . |
| 7 | Killing Chant had seemed like a wise manoeuvre at the time — and , of course , an agreeable diversion on a night without a show to go to — but Dowd had n't predicted the furore it would cause . |
| 8 | And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday . |
| 9 | The last few days had seemed like a dream , but now , with the soft rain damp on his face , that dream had ended … and become a nightmare . |
| 10 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 11 | In her early childhood , a threepenny piece had seemed like a fortune , whereas Félix Verveine 's rich clients thought nothing of paying 3,000 francs to be dressed by him . |
| 12 | It had once seemed like a reasonable strategy for a loner : live cheap , move around , invest everything and then cut loose while still young and really start to live . |
| 13 | To put it on the slide and send it into the flames had seemed like a bitter , bitter joke . |
| 14 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |
| 15 | His absence had , at any rate , spared her the agony of facing the tight-lipped cynicism of his stares and that irreparable barrier that had sprung up between them in what had seemed like a matter of minutes . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ It 's seemed like a year , waiting for you to come again . |
| 17 | In this case it is still difficult to appreciate the worth of the savings plan because we do n't think in 1900 prices when the sum of £1010 ( the amount gained in interest ) would have seemed like a fortune ! |
| 18 | More recently ‘ The Little Red Province ’ might have seemed like a positive reference to the ideological orientation of the area . |
| 19 | If that was the Big Time , it would n't have impressed them too much — the journey would have seemed like an eternity . |
| 20 | And marrying Ferg had seemed like an extra boost to her life-plan . |
| 21 | So when the advert for the Rose Bowl had appeared in the trade Press it had seemed like an answer to a prayer . |
| 22 | Just seven days since he 'd gone , and each one had seemed like an eternity . |
| 23 | In Edinburgh , where the Edinburgh Typographical Society heaved a sigh of relief when the Caledonian Press failed in 1865 , that must have seemed like the end of the matter . |