Example sentences of "[Wh det] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up on Tottenham Court Road there were all the gadget shops , all displaying their various ranges of radios , record players , compact-disc players and videos — all of which seemed to be housed in bewilderingly similar sleek black boxes . |
| 2 | Soaring compositions of fruit and foliage , tangles of leaves and flowers , garlands of nuts and berries had been artfully choreographed into balletic wood sculpture which seemed to mirror nature then refine it . |
| 3 | This was no more evident than on the Isle of Wight at the end of 1989 , which seemed to be going backwards despite getting new stock . |
| 4 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 5 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 6 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 7 | Goodway , now of Wigan , disappointed Reilly deeply by withdrawing from last year 's tour for personal reasons which seemed less than urgent , but the coach has sensibly decided against holding grudges . |
| 8 | The hot , dry weather was beginning to break , to be replaced by ferocious winds which seemed determined to pluck us off the mountainside . |
| 9 | Religious hope flickers , as at Magnus Martyr , but the city crowds out the city churches , and going to the apparent sources of the religious life which seemed to hold promise in Lower Thames Street , Eliot found himself unable to sustain hope . |
| 10 | One of these tunnels , which seemed awesomely long , black and terrifying , was , with gumption and at such times as the brook was not in full spate , explorable . |
| 11 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 12 | In the longer run the accentuation of the sterling area policy , and its apparent success , especially in the explosion of colonial dollar-earning from the time of the Korean War commodity boom , re-established the pound as a major currency , a role which seemed unlikely in 1945 . |
| 13 | which seemed to consist mainly of abusing Asquith , were symptomatic of the party 's inability to discover a real sense of direction . |
| 14 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 15 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 16 | Tony assured me that there was a supermarket in the village , which seemed unlikely in a place that had less than ten houses , but turned out to be almost true — — the garage sold bits and pieces . |
| 17 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 18 | She had chosen just five to start with , most of them to do with children , which seemed appropriate , and the Welsh National Opera , which was also fitting . |
| 19 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
| 20 | There was a perfect grace which architects had been working towards through the seventeenth century and which seemed to peak in its purest form at about this time , not without a little Royal influence from Holland ! |
| 21 | Right from the start , the people who dreamed up the reforms made the mistake of including buzz-words — the ‘ internal market ’ and ‘ opted-out ’ are the most glaring examples — which seemed intended to flatter Mrs Thatcher rather than to inform Mr Average . |
| 22 | THROUGHOUT the mid-1980s a fierce battle raged for control of Daimler-Benz , the luxury-car maker which seemed to epitomise the industrial prowess of a resurgent West Germany . |
| 23 | De Gaulle added economic policy to the goals of political union , which seemed to menace those communities . |
| 24 | Richards insisted he was not pressurizing the umpire but doing a celebratory dance , which seemed odd since as the umpire had not raised a finger at the time he had nothing to celebrate . |
| 25 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |
| 26 | Peter Abelard rejected these crude and often absurd ideas which seemed to lower the dignity of God . |
| 27 | Nothing perturbed him , and he had a sphinx-like face , with amber eyes which seemed to look into your soul . |
| 28 | He was a misshapen giant , hunch-backed by the drum attached to his shoulders which seemed to beat by itself . |
| 29 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 30 | My Aunt Lyallie came to keep my mother company until she recovered a little from the shock , which seemed to have worsened the condition of her eyes , for she was slowly going blind . |