Example sentences of "what they seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 2 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |
| 3 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |
| 4 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 5 | That 's what they seem to be going towards now , are n't they ? |