Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] seem [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge .
2 The chronicler does not seem to have been among them , although he does say that in 1006 the king and his councillors thought offering tribute distasteful .
3 The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive .
4 For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin .
5 I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’
6 I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy .
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