Example sentences of "what seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what seemed to fall rather short of perfect innocence was a case of ‘ attempting to obtain money by threats of violence ’ where two youths had sent a menacing note to the old lady next door — ‘ Unless you provide £500 in old notes … you will be shot by revolver ’ — thereby reducing her to hysterics . |
| 2 | What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future . |
| 3 | What seemed to impress Audrey most , however , was not a dance at all , but a wonderfully rhythmical performance by a Nepalese drummer using his hands and feet to beat his nine drums . |
| 4 | What seemed to have happened was that Scotland 's economic cycle had gradually moved out of synchronisation with the national one . |
| 5 | What seem to have been overlooked is the possibility that user feedback during the search process may be a crucial element which so far has been underestimated . |
| 6 | An explanation was needed and one was to hand : ‘ What seems to inhibit the Guards from varying their recruiting policy is a concern to preserve the uniform appearance of the ranks on ceremonial occasions . ’ |
| 7 | What seems to exist is a continuum of purchasing involvement . |
| 8 | What seems to emerge is that Iraq 's foreign-exchange reserves , which amounted to $20 billion in 1980 , had reached $30 billion the following year . |
| 9 | Okay right erm , so what seems to emerge is that it 's economic factors that are the most important er determinants affecting the migrant 's decision . |
| 10 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 11 | This business of planning rehabilitation and planning adoption — fostering with a potential view to adoption simultaneously , which is what seems to happen now — seems to me absolutely dotty ! |
| 12 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 13 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 14 | But , being pragmatists as well as traditionalists , most Tories are content to leave alone what seems to work . |
| 15 | I am aware of the extensive experimental research which has focused on ion forms involving Ca++ Na+ etc2 , but what seems to have been missed in this prior research is the appreciation that water forms its own ion form in that it dissociates into hydroxyl and hydronium ions as listed on the table . |
| 16 | Instead , the outcome of what seems to have been an uncomfortable occasion was merely that Pound and Lewis took that much longer to find out that they were natural allies . |
| 17 | What seems to have been forgotten is the role played by my relation , Meg Meade-Fetherstonhaugh in bringing this Sleeping Beauty to life for our generation to enjoy until its tragic destruction . |
| 18 | This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism . |
| 19 | Lift the lid off any computer and you 'll be struck as much by what seems to have been left out as by what was put in . |
| 20 | What seems to have occurred is that the texts of the previous generation have been disposed of in preference to any others . |
| 21 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 22 | What seems to have happened is that the distinction , drawn perhaps from one of the few classical instances ( of Ulpian or Papinian ) , was seized on by epi-classical law and later adopted as a post-classical touchstone . |
| 23 | Once again , our ignorance is very great ; but wherever we go in Europe , we find traces of what seems to have been a widespread and quite accepted practice , before the papal reform and the insistence on celibacy . |
| 24 | Upon their return to England after South African unification in 1910 the kindergarten tackled the next item on what seems to have been an implicit agenda — the unification of the British empire . |
| 25 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 26 | The decision must be our Government 's alone and that is what seems to have happened . |
| 27 | This is what seems to have happened early in the history of the Earth , because the oldest known fossil remains of proteinoid globules are believed to date back about 4 billion years . |
| 28 | The Royal Road passed through what seems to have been a densely built-up area of the Minoan city . |
| 29 | What seems to have happened is that they have internalised the negative images that are attributed to black people and do not feel that they should identify with them . |
| 30 | What seems to have happened here ( as on other matters ) is a division of Opinion between the ETS committee who may have been quite sincere in trying a long-term solution — and the knee-jerk reaction of the membership against the permanent acceptance of women as compositors which the project undeniably contained . |