Example sentences of "what it seem [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be .
2 To them it was what it seemed to be , a pleasant green meadow .
3 But no quarrel in England is ever about what it seems to be about .
4 ‘ With him nothing is what it seems to be . ’
5 But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left .
6 Nothing is what it seems to be . ’
7 All is not what it seems to be ; ’
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