Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It do n't seem to be any good at all , whatsoever . |
| 2 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 3 | De Benedetti explained his prevarication yesterday , saying : ‘ It did not seem to be the appropriate moment to clarify the position of the company on arguments that must first , by their nature , be illuminated and discussed in front of judicial authorities . ’ |
| 4 | It did not seem to be the man or his capacities that changed in these cases , so much as the needs and expectations of his followers , organizations , and markets . |
| 5 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 6 | The chief problem with thallium was that it did n't seem to be used for anything much apart from the manufacture of optical lenses of a high refractive index — camera lenses , for example . |
| 7 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 8 | It was exciting , it was beautiful , but somehow it did n't seem to be all there . |
| 9 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 10 | Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since . |
| 11 | So it did n't seem to be of any hardship to anybody for for the mother to be involved in er political activity . |
| 12 | It did n't seem to be getting me very far . |
| 13 | And this application of standard formula upset Selby for reasons we heard this morning , and it upsel =set us because it did n't seem to be taking the real situation into account . |
| 14 | It did n't seem to be affecting him , she noticed . |
| 15 | When the , the laundry was knocked down it seemed to be the end of an era that er , it did n't seem to be like park much longer . |
| 16 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 17 | ‘ It does not seem to be a hive of industry , ’ Morton said . |
| 18 | If substantial structural change is taking place , then , it does not seem to be following the lines which would be suggested by public choice theory . |
| 19 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 20 | Frogs and toads occasionally employ this device , but it does not seem to be very widespread among these amphibians . |
| 21 | Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause . |
| 22 | ‘ it does not seem to be far from the truth that the freedom with which a person can walk about and look around is a very useful guide to the civilized quality of an urban area . |
| 23 | But even if it is just , it does not seem to be comprehensive . |
| 24 | It is introduced as a hypothesis which can bring coherence and understanding into this area — a piece of speculation which has continued to worry empiricists ever since it was first developed since it does not seem to be based on facts . |
| 25 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 26 | It is unlikely , but it does not seem to be ‘ wrong ’ in quite the same way as the sentences in Task 3 . |
| 27 | However , although this may be useful as a way of training competent scientists , it does not seem to be an ideal method of producing critical , thinking adults . |
| 28 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 29 | But significantly , table 7.1 also shows that it does not seem to be possible to elicit sharp judgements of acceptability which can be used to divide grammatical from ungrammatical sentences . |
| 30 | Although anal intercourse may play some part it does not seem to be a necessary activity for the development of anal cancer . |