Example sentences of "[Wh det] seem to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discoverers added a number of routes , the best of which seem to be Cookie Monster E7 6b , and the most popular Wagtail E3 5b . |
| 2 | Now on to Bradford on Avon , the ancient wool town , and up the steep hills lined with stone houses , most of which seem to be antique shops . |
| 3 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 4 | This is especially so in the remote sheep-farming areas of Wales , which seem to be particularly favoured as fox-dumping grounds . |
| 5 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 6 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 7 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 8 | It must be stressed , though , that were it is said above that the researcher will ‘ scan the library ’ for previous writings on the area of study , this means more than a casual walk past the shelves of books which seem to be vaguely related to the topic . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs , which seem to be reported with increasing frequency these days , it may well turn out that such therapies have the less obvious effect of further imbalancing the body 's mechanisms , so adding to the burden of chronic ill-health . |
| 10 | There are two general assumptions which seem to be widely if not universally accepted as self-evident . |
| 11 | I would rather draw on ideas which seem to be meaningful in the present context and which offer opportunities for further exploration — not the babies already born and growing up , but ones in the making ! |
| 12 | The leaping flame of the fire can call to mind strange images , which seem to be beyond the boundaries of normal knowledge . |
| 13 | Still , what the song celebrates are ‘ hidden paths ’ , ‘ sudden tree[s] ’ , ‘ A new road on a secret gate ’ — things which seem to be or to lead out of this world . |
| 14 | An alternative approach is to seek a better understanding of the developmental processes which seem to be at work by studying young children as they involve themselves in getting to know the language . |
| 15 | Yet there are some related inscriptions which seem to be Minoan in origin . |
| 16 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 17 | Some of these daemons are shown as followers , guardians and attendants of deities and sacred objects ; others are fantastic composite monsters which seem to be spontaneous creations of the unconscious mind . |
| 18 | There are nevertheless many images which seem to be spontaneous Minoan creations — strange and haunting images like the one on a sealstone depicting a daemon carrying two animal carcases on a pole . |
| 19 | Since many of these are so patent and numerous , his difficulty will be to isolate those factors which seem to be most significant in promoting discontent . |
| 20 | Close to 400 years of peace have left Switzerland with an enormous wealth of beautiful old buildings , most of which seem to be in the capital , Berne . |
| 21 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 22 | The criteria which seem to be applied by both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in deciding whether leave should be granted are ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ) : |
| 23 | Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful . |
| 24 | The British participants were particularly interested in the brand of signs which seem to be generally understood by the deaf of most of the European countries . |
| 25 | They are continuing factors in the life of the Church through the experience Christians have of the Spirit , and through the sacraments of water ( baptism ) and blood ( the eucharist ) which seem to be alluded to here . |
| 26 | Erm women are more likely to use the words such as may , might , possibly , perhaps which seem to be a little less forceful . |
| 27 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
| 28 | Although the poem contains such pessimistic overtones and pathetic acceptance of fate there is hope to be found in the last two lines which seem to be set apart from the rest . |
| 29 | He stated : ‘ It is somewhat bizarre that local authorities should single out the nuclear industry with its accident-free transport record for attack when the public is placed at far greater risk by the routine traffic in fuels and chemicals which seem to be of little interest to our councillors . ’ |
| 30 | The Council have done a wonderful job in constructing existing pedestrian/cycle paths such as the Longniddry — Haddington path , which seem to be very successful in terms of use . |