Example sentences of "which seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the reasons , a large number of people soon began to work on string theory and a new version was developed , the so-called heterotic string , which seemed as if it might be able to explain the types of particles that we observe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 4 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 5 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 6 | Light enveloped Ruth , a heatless blaze which seemed for an instant about to destroy her ; and then she was gone into a great space of darkness . |
| 7 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just had a dreadful thought , ’ said Chrissie , her eyes wide with foreboding and an ominous throb in her voice which seemed for once totally natural . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 12 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whilst many Methodists inclined to Calvinism , many of the leading Evangelicals , notably Simeon and the Rev.John Venn , Rector of Clapham , tried to avoid doctrinal controversies , which seemed to them irrelevant to the paramount issue : how to lead a Christian life and enter the Kingdom of Heaven . |
| 15 | Which seemed to Charles an extremely lame answer in view of the history of the acquaintanceship . |
| 16 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 17 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The air was sweet with the smell of bread from the bakeries which seemed to be on every other street corner . |
| 21 | I trundled along the valley , keeping the curve of the plateau to my left and watching the distant Land Rover , which seemed to be going too far south . |
| 22 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 23 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 24 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 25 | The great fun was doing the pulling which seemed to be an essential part of the process . |
| 26 | But for the most part we shivered in our beds that winter , heaping on more and more blankets , which seemed to be made of a mixture of cardboard and lead and only increased the weight without increasing the heat . |
| 27 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Jack 's glance fell on the tiny computer screen , which seemed to be going crazy — flashing up numbers , graphics and a kind of blue fuzz , each image speeding into the next . |
| 30 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |