Example sentences of "[Wh det] seem [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our results with western blotting contrast with those of Klein et al who identified a 65 kDa band which seemed to be specific for PSC . |
| 2 | We would decorate it with pieces of cotton wool for snow , and one or two other nice things like those shining coloured balls , which seemed to be metallic , but which were easily broken . |
| 3 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 4 | Although the belief in growth as a value in itself , or as the remedy for the ills of society , which seemed to be prevalent in the early 1960s has given way to a more sceptical attitude , it seems clear that an understanding of the long-run consequences of tax and expenditure policy is essential . |
| 5 | Any comment which seemed to be irrelevant was accepted seriously and an appropriate question would bring the speaker 's thoughts back to the matter under discussion . |
| 6 | Soon I found a hut , which seemed to be empty , but when I entered I saw a pretty young woman asleep on the floor . |
| 7 | The crux of the debate was whether this was the most cost-effective way of meeting the demand for heating in Britain , 7 and the Boards were under considerable pressure from the Government to justify their commercial policy , which seemed to be attracting peak loads at uneconomic prices . |
| 8 | Yet there are some related inscriptions which seem to be Minoan in origin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But a few comments which seem to be apposite erm , we do n't want to kill animals with cruelty do we not ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thus Marvell 's escapism is more complete than Marlowe 's which seems to be pure fantasy and wish fulfilment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | The one word which seems to be uppermost in every discussion , decision or political behind-the-scenes scheming in tennis these days , is MONEY . |
| 24 | Something which seems to be soluble at some stage and the water gets hot and it 's not soluble , so we 're looking for things here that are not not soluble . |
| 25 | Then he turned the gas off and poured the contents of the pan into the big metal bin which seems to be compulsory in vegetarian kitchens and which always contains enough mushy peas to drown a Rugby League team . |
| 26 | It now seems reasonable to expect that the new chalets will be filled either by short term letting through a central agency , or by ‘ time sharing ’ which seems to be popular these days . |
| 27 | Can the Secretary of State tell us how many people might be involved in this so-called transfer fee racket , which seems to be difficult to administer ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |