Example sentences of "have seem [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cubbage must have seemed a good catch with his fine house , handsome looks and with his obvious wealth . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Angered by what must have seemed a monstrous betrayal , or a display of contemptible cowardice , Simeon turned upon them and persecuted them as traitors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 13 | Scotland must have seemed a fair way away , and no chance this year of a real Hogmanay . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His future success as one quarter of The Smiths must have seemed an impossible dream in those days . |
| 16 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 17 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 18 | Therefore he had taken what must have seemed an obvious step to protect himself . |
| 19 | Even for the full Welsh side to beat Australia — let alone the second string-would have seemed an outrageous dream a year ago in the wake of humiliating defeats at the hands of the world champions , 63–6 on tour Down Under , and 38–3 in the World Cup . |
| 20 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 21 | To go — to disappear without trace must have seemed the ideal — the only solution . ’ |
| 22 | In 1887 its commanding presence must have seemed the very epitome of British rule . |
| 23 | One day , a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily . |