Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] which seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past . |
| 2 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 3 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 4 | Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled . |
| 5 | Whether enforcement agents are concerned with air or water' pollution control , consumer protection , health and safety at work , housing , discrimination , wage and price control , or the many other areas of social and economic life now considered to be the law 's business , writers have observed a style of enforcement which seems to be predominantly conciliatory . |
| 6 | This kind of arrangement may be possible in the more flexible reports of major excavations now being planned , and will be a great advance on the old-fashioned set-piece type of report which seems to be designed only for those wanting to study particular types of artefact , rather than the history and significance of the site itself . |
| 7 | Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress . |
| 8 | An example of the interactions between living things in which both partners would appear to benefit equally occurs in the Amazon Forest where one particular species of orchid is pollinated by just one species of bee which seems to be tailor-made to fit the flower which it pollinates . |
| 9 | The rapid progress towards integration which seemed to be occurring also , in December 1952 , led the Dutch foreign minister to write to his counterparts that the extent of political and military integration currently under consideration should be accompanied by an equally extensive economic integration — in short , by a common market . |
| 10 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 11 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 12 | Every day some master , insufficiently energetic or serious , is forced to descend from the ranks in society which seemed to be permanently his , and some intelligent and plucky clerk takes his place . |