Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb mod] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I do not wish in what follows to forego the support of what must seem to be the good sense of our natural empiricism , which is independent of philosophy . |
| 2 | Thus , beneath what may seem to be pure escapist entertainment , there lies a deep psychological truth . |
| 3 | But when it actually occurs , whether her reaction is one of numbness and shock , or of anguish more openly expressed through episodes of weeping and talking freely about her feelings , you will need to brace yourself to catch her as she falls into what will seem to her to be the bottomless pit of her sorrow . |
| 4 | Of course the daft names of so many of his pieces feed the myth as do his occasional forays into what can seem like a kind of proto-minimalism . |
| 5 | On the other hand I suspect that you as a magistrate have , have views about the amount of time that it takes up erm in your court , dealing with what must seem to you erm fairly erm minor offenses , and I wonder what you feel about it . |
| 6 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 7 | So , is n't it rather difficult to adapt to what must seem like some of the trivial aches and pains suffered by his patients in England ? |
| 8 | If you choose to do so , then prepare for what may seem like tough responses . |
| 9 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 10 | If we alter the lexis , we can arrive at what would seem to be an entirely normal expression : |
| 11 | Someone may call and offer to buy your furniture or other items at what might seem like a good price . |