Example sentences of "does not seem [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wish to express concern about the above scheme which does not seem to be compatible with the environmental principles adopted by the European Community over recent years . |
| 2 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 3 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 4 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 5 | But even if it is just , it does not seem to be comprehensive . |
| 6 | We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another is that gravity does not seem to be renormalizable ; in order to obtain finite answers , it seems that one may have to make an infinite number of infinite subtractions with a correspondingly infinite number of undetermined finite remainders . |
| 11 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 12 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 13 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 14 | Believing in democracy for its own sake does not seem to be characteristic of Chinese political thought , past or present . |
| 15 | Indeed , he does not seem to be aware that it exists : ‘ All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance . ’ |
| 16 | The Prime Minister does not seem to be aware of what is happening with prescription charges . |
| 17 | Secondly , the hon. Lady does not seem to be aware that 17 drug prevention teams have been established in areas where Ecstasy and other drugs are being consumed in large amounts and sold on the streets . |
| 18 | In addition , the right hon. Gentleman does not seem to be aware that , although potential joyriders may not read Hansard , the word about tough sentences having been imposed has a habit of getting around . |
| 19 | Long term insect action may produce modifications similar to that produced by wood-boring insects on dead wood ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ; Thorne & Kimsey , 1983 ) , but this does not seem to be common . |
| 20 | Such a molecular arrangement does not seem to be common in natural structural materials and indeed , a Polythene tree of any considerable height would be a public menace because of its low modulus . |
| 21 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 22 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 23 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
| 24 | The reduction in leukotriene B 4 values induced by fish oil supplementation does not seem to be large enough to modulate active inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 25 | About mysticism he says , ‘ While its theories seem to me to be mistaken , I yet believe that by sufficient restraint , there is an element of wisdom to be learned from the mystical way of feeling , which does not seem to be attainable in any other manner . |
| 26 | It does n't seem to be Farrakhanist in origin , though the role of the Rev Louis Farrakhan in the uprising has probably been much underestimated . |
| 27 | Working on her art does n't seem to be tiring Faye at all , and — ’ |
| 28 | He does n't seem to be involved in that many discussions about the company does he ? |
| 29 | I 'm in the middle of a government grant on my house and by the time I get that together and spending money , which I should n't be doing , on junk , y'know , and I want to start a family and that , y'know , and try and be respectable , but it just does n't seem to be available under this health service , this National Health Service , although I do know people who have it prescribed . |
| 30 | But it does n't seem to be worthwhile to chuck out all the bits of paper we 've got and replace them all just to get the colour right . |