Example sentences of "which seemed [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries .
2 Yes Norman Lamont you 're right erm even the demise was suggested that the square sausage , which seemed possible on the basis of the conversion of metric tables and if you do n't know what the square sausage is , the G M B Scotland delegates will only be too happy er to give you the answer .
3 This left only 20 per cent who reported a degree of pain which seemed appropriate to the nature and amount of their injury .
4 It is simply that a feature , which seemed prominent in the stereotype , may appear insignificant in the performance , and vice versa .
5 It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him .
6 Instead , he developed a concept of the rule of law , drawing on aspects of both the ancient and modern conceptions , which seemed incompatible with the extensive use of these governmental powers .
7 Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines .
8 His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " .
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