Example sentences of "which seem [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the Labour Party 's professorate homed in on two facets of the concept which seemed particularly appropriate for their party . |
| 2 | Pamela had found out about two local youth clubs , one of which seemed particularly suitable for her . |
| 3 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 4 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 5 | I was curious that the branch of economics which related to the welfare of individuals and societies , namely welfare economics , depended on an explicit set of judgments , which seemed remarkably similar to contemporary liberal values . |
| 6 | All of which seemed just to me . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're off , ’ she said in a voice which seemed oddly distant . |
| 8 | She had a shawl-thing round her shoulders , and a knitting bag in her hand , which seemed oddly heavy . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think ’ — Molly was finishing her glass of wine , which seemed even warmer and oilier than usual , as quickly as she could — ‘ that you should believe all you read in the papers . ’ |
| 10 | The identifying symbols had been placed all over her dress , and included one in an area which seemed anatomically surprising . |
| 11 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 12 | Demonstrating in a tangible way the ‘ anxiety of influence ’ , in Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient ( 1985 ) and Claude Simon 's Discours de Stockholm ( 1986 ) , Sartre is castigated for having failed to follow through the innovative La Nausée ( 1938 ) by writing Les Chemins de la Liberté ( 1945 — 49 ) , which seemed unambiguously political in conception and , as a consequence , axiomatically non-modernist . |
| 13 | She appeared to be standing in her customary arms-folded , upright posture , staring into the smoke as if she was in a trance , which seemed decidedly odd , given the circumstances . |
| 14 | Nietzsche , having announced that God was dead , placed his Superman in a cycle of eternal recurrence , which seemed equally repulsive to the Christian and to the scientist . |
| 15 | She paid the bill , which seemed outrageously large to Loretta , without batting an eyelid . |
| 16 | By the beginning of 1941 it was the monarchist lobby which seemed most in need of this reminder . |
| 17 | Either the loathsome Mr Sterne had flown out here deliberately to coincide with her lonely holiday , which seemed most unlikely , or else Charles and Lucy had somehow omitted to inform him that Virginia was coming in their place . |
| 18 | A pair of semi-detached houses which seemed rather out of place adjoined Invicta Terrace . |
| 19 | We showed how in certain areas — for example home-school links , the curriculum , and whole-school management — clear policies can be appropriate and helpful ; and how in other areas — notably classroom practice — advisory staff seemed eager to prescribe in some detail how teachers should organize their classrooms and manage their teaching , a focus for policy and action at that level which seemed rather less appropriate . |
| 20 | Mr Wishart stood up and opened it for her , handing her the wicker basket which seemed surprisingly light ; the old lady stepped off the train onto a now deserted platform . |
| 21 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 22 | But towards her he was being punctilious in a way which seemed slightly out of character , as though he did not quite know how to approach her , even though it was he who had brought her here . |
| 23 | In contrast to Wyndham Lewis , who when I invited him home expressed apprehension that he might have to meet my family ( a prospect which seemed slightly to unnerve him ) , Eliot showed no such anxiety about my people . |
| 24 | He had been therapist and client both , had asked the questions and supplied the answers , aiming at total frankness , keeping nothing back , expressing to those bare walls , that metal table and black-leather swivel chair , that window with its half-drawn , dark-blue blind , the crawling distastes and shames , the self-disgust , the shrinking from light and the fear which seemed sometimes to beat with frenzied wings against bars in his brain . |
| 25 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 26 | Her dark eyes , which seemed almost too large for her small features , held an expression of great sadness . |
| 27 | Leading Comrade Wong wanted to know the weaknesses of the Chinese English students , and we said they were really very good ( which they are ) , and he asked whether we had any dissatisfactions or criticisms , and we said we did n't , which seemed almost to crestfall him , as it seems part of the Chinese way of life that criticisms should be exchanged . |
| 28 | To top this unprepossessing appearance was a thin , scrawny neck which seemed only just to support the weight of his head . |
| 29 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 30 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |