Example sentences of "[Wh det] seem [to-vb] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 14 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 15 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But anything which seemed to offer a challenge to what they regarded as their rightful status was certain to cause resentment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own . |
| 23 | Peter Abelard rejected these crude and often absurd ideas which seemed to lower the dignity of God . |
| 24 | ‘ Dead or alive , you 're coming with me , ’ he said , which seemed to ring a bell somewhere . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yet these are feelings which seem to contradict the universalist , rational aspirations of liberalism . |
| 28 | The kinship school , however , tends to have two kinds of reservation about studies which seem to demonstrate the success of adoption . |
| 29 | Regarding the more specialised applications which seem to use the algebra ( of the type presented here ) in an essential way , the theory of groups , being ( in a rather wide sense ) the mathematical formulation of symmetry , is naturally widely employed in physics and chemistry — for instance in applications to crystallography , spectroscopy , general relativity , molecular vibrations , molecular orbitals , solid state physics and especially in the modern theory of elementary particles . |
| 30 | The only difficulty that arises is that there are several texts of Scaevola which seem to anticipate the interpretation of a pecuniary modus as a trust . |