At first my help must have seemed important, just doing work they did not wish to do.

Up to now it had not seemed important to Hassan.

From the many small things he had learned, one above all now seemed important.

I have not often liked them, but that hasn't seemed important.

But it didn't seem very important one way or another.

So far that has seemed more important than any ceremony.

Such problems have always seemed more important to her than meeting welfare rules, she said.

He could think of nothing he'd been given that had seemed more important.

Nothing had seemed more important than knowledge for its own sake.

Back then, the only thing that had seemed important was time.