However, as with the tiger, there seems no easy explanation for their purpose.

But her explanation, whatever it was, didn't seem to be making any great change in their circumstances.

There seemed only one explanation for what she had seen, and that was impossible.

And since some explanation seemed to be called for, she made one.

The simple explanation might seem to be that California is the most populous state.

But even that explanation didn't seem to answer her question.

But under the circumstances any explanation might have seemed plausible.

The explanation seems to depend on who is doing the explaining.

The only explanation which can be given, he says, seems to me to result from the experience known to all the world.

But at the time, no other explanation had seemed plausible.