Example sentences of "seem [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 6 | He seems never to have been close to his sister . |