Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 2 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 3 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 4 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 5 | To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants . |
| 6 | The USA , which well within the memory of the majority of its inhabitants , was the world 's leading oil supplier , does not like being dependent on imported oil , particularly oil imported from areas of the world where political unrest means that a loss of supply — for instance through a closure of the Strait of Hormuz — is always a possibility . |
| 7 | Is not used to and does not like being dependent on others . |