The department seemed in danger of becoming an old boys' club.

But his department has seemed frozen by indecision ever since.

By the 1990-1991 academic year, the department seemed on the verge of collapse.

Since the change of government in 1997, every department seemed to be using people carriers.

Today, the department seems more in touch with its academic side.

The male department - indeed the whole family - seemed cursed and blessed.

Now the department seems to have the opposite problem.

The department seems to be a critic of its own nuclear facilities.

Since then, the department seems to have settled into inertia.

Other scientists were recruited and his department seemed to thrive.