Example sentences of "[Wh det] seems to be " in BNC.

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1 Indeed brain-mind identity is more than a belief , it is a hypothesis which seems to be the simplest explanation of the mind-brain problem , if it is a problem , and therefore one which parsimony requires us to accept .
2 CWO Simon Grant holds Flymo 's lead which seems to be tied to the HQ drainpipe .
3 Both take some following , and the Cobra in particular will probably never be repeated — not even with the Viper , which seems to be losing its fangs even before it 's born .
4 The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey .
5 I wish to rely on a model , both elegant and simple , expounded by a philosopher , Alan Tormey ( 1971 ) , which seems to be not entirely incompatible with most aesthetic and performance theories .
6 Nick has established a system of working out there which seems to be paying off .
7 But that 's what the rules say he must look like , which seems to be a problem with just about every branch of equestrian sport .
8 There is a lethal or semi-lethal dwarfing factor in the breed , sometimes called the bulldog-calf syndrome , the genetics of which have been closely studied and which seems to be slightly different to the dwarfing factor sometimes seen in other cattle breeds .
9 Which seems to be the longest of these Scottish fjords , and of the ribbon lakes ?
10 He rattled up no less than 46 league goals ( an all-time club record which seems to be invincible ) , including six in succession in the 7–2 defeat of Exeter on 4 October .
11 A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met .
12 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 .
13 If this is n't possible , which seems to be the case in your situation , then the restaurant is in breach of contract and you could have a claim for compensation for disappointment , plus any expenses you may have incurred — for example , travelling costs to and from the restaurant .
14 The novel is weaker on the re-enaction of Exodus , which seems to be an unnecessary diversion from Jacobson 's central concerns .
15 But how do we sustain , in prose or verse , a feeling that is intensely personal , not obviously called up by something ‘ on the outside ’ but which seems to be embedded deep within us ?
16 In point of fact , for my Uaru tank , I would probably simply potter out to the garden , where I have piles of our local rock , which seems to be a metamorphosed sandstone , and has proved inert during years of use .
17 Could it be that they do not have the stomach for the hard grind which seems to be necessary to pick up those all important computer points ?
18 The one word which seems to be uppermost in every discussion , decision or political behind-the-scenes scheming in tennis these days , is MONEY .
19 They also have a cult of ancestors ( or of the dead ) which seems to be concerned with morality and to provide the anticipated antithesis to their witchcraft beliefs ; and there is further evidence of belief in a higher — if generally otiose — central deity .
20 There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own .
21 Fortunately dietary intervention from before conception seems to have a favourable influence on outcome , which seems to be closely associated with the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia very early in gestation .
22 I make a habit of sending a certain number of cases of wine each year to individuals at any level of the company who have done something which I have come across which seems to be particularly meritorious .
23 In the same × 7 field are Omicron ( 3.8 ) and the variable X Persei , which seems to be irregular , and fluctuates between magnitudes 6.0 and 6.6 .
24 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 .
25 It applies to the symbolic language of dream life , which seems to be almost universal among Homo sapiens and which has a life of its own .
26 A heavy rare groove vibe , which seems to be making a comeback on many London floors in defiance of the high street rave scene , informs this surefire chart hit on Rhythm King .
27 For the lips , Yves Rocher follows the ‘ blood-red ’ theme which seems to be emerging for lips this autumn , with a new Long & Lasting Lipstick shade called Rouge Authentique .
28 There is now a momentum which seems to be beyond control .
29 But in spite of the insistent use of demotic speech in The Confidential Clerk , the very quality which seems to be missing from it is contemporaneity — it is worth remembering , in contrast , that John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was produced only three years later .
30 In the process , we shall explore some recent attempts to construct a theoretical notion of ‘ topic ’ , a notion which seems to be essential to concepts such as ‘ relevance ’ and ‘ coherence ’ , but which itself is very difficult to pin down .
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