Example sentences of "which seemed [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was glad to be free of Godstowe and the cloying , hidden menace which seemed to permeate the place like sane unwholesome stench . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The room was gloomy , filled with massive , mahogany furniture and pervaded by a musty smell which seemed to characterise the whole house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 13 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Peter Abelard rejected these crude and often absurd ideas which seemed to lower the dignity of God . |
| 17 | The upper half of the front door was a stained glass window which seemed to emphasize the cloistered atmosphere of the deserted road . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | More significantly , perhaps , he revealed to Edward that there was much opposition in Normandy to the fiscal oppression of the Valois administration and the centralizing policies which seemed to threaten the provincial liberties of the duchy . |
| 20 | Although outside the sun was shining and this room was in the front of the house , no glimmer of sunlight filtered through the venetian blinds and the half-drawn curtains , only a dusty grey luminosity which seemed to chill the room . |
| 21 | An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . |