Example sentences of "[Wh det] seemed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenison busied himself with gathering up plans and files , which seemed to litter every surface . |
| 2 | Associated with this corporatist trend , which seemed to decrease the power of the traditional peripheral politicians , was the development of regionalism as a policy mode , to which we referred earlier . |
| 3 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 4 | He was glad to be free of Godstowe and the cloying , hidden menace which seemed to permeate the place like sane unwholesome stench . |
| 5 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 6 | In the dull moonlight , which seemed to paint the landscape with phosphorescence rather than illuminate it , the region resembled a pale sky scattered all over with puffs of black cloud . |
| 7 | The room was gloomy , filled with massive , mahogany furniture and pervaded by a musty smell which seemed to characterise the whole house . |
| 8 | This description of the extended professional takes some account of Stenhouse 's criticism of Hoyle 's earlier formulation which seemed to emphasise an uncritical acceptance of theory and consequently reduced teacher autonomy . |
| 9 | There will be no complaints from 26-year-old Flowers , even though it was his self-confidence which seemed to infect an England team short of inspiration in the past two weeks . |
| 10 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 11 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 12 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 13 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 14 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 15 | In October 1962 Kennedy blockaded Cuba and forced Khruschev to withdraw his missiles in a crisis which seemed to take the world to the brink of nuclear war . |
| 16 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 17 | There was a robust strength about all Australian stations which seemed to reflect the character of the early colonies , their ambitions , and the part they would play in a successful Commonwealth in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 19 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 20 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 21 | I 'm not carping about the way Marks handled the case ; an adult woman went missing in circumstances which seemed to offer a plausible explanation . |
| 22 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 23 | But anything which seemed to offer a challenge to what they regarded as their rightful status was certain to cause resentment . |
| 24 | There was a broken light fitting overhead which seemed to present a good fixture . |
| 25 | That was the last of the major rows which seemed to haunt the Production Office throughout its formative first year , but it was a sad indictment that Doctor Who never won full respectability as a serious drama programme within the Corporation . |
| 26 | During the 1970s there was a China boom in Japan which seemed to evoke the old image of China as a source of civilization and ideas . |
| 27 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 28 | The decision to break was not taken in haste , but the culmination of years of little niggles which seemed to have no end in sight . |
| 29 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 30 | They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own . |