Example sentences of "which seemed to be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence .
2 and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying .
3 However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress .
4 The air was sweet with the smell of bread from the bakeries which seemed to be on every other street corner .
5 Over one last rise , and they were driving across a grassy boulder-strewn plateau which seemed to be on the top of the world .
6 During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better .
7 Before Morrissette , Robbe-Grillet had appeared to accept the chosiste label attached to him by Barthes on account of the supposedly flat and neutral representation of external reality and the minute descriptions of objects in his early novels , which seemed to be in accordance with the phenomenological position outlined in Pour un nouveau roman .
8 He pushed impatiently with his feet at some obstacle which seemed to be in his way .
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