Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] do not seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the contrary does not seem to have been argued . |
| 2 | The financial circumstances of the college also appear to have improved since 1988 when it was forced into an underfunded merger with Bedford College , and the state of the building does not seem to require the sum of £10.5 million originally put to the Commissioners . |
| 3 | The irony did not seem to strike him . |
| 4 | However the collapse of the wavepacket does not seem to carry information of this kind so that there does not appear to be a prima facie case of contradiction . |
| 5 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
| 6 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 7 | From its wording , the question does not seem to relate to the requirement for vessels to be operated from within the flag state but merely to the case where , following the introduction of new registration requirements , a vessel loses its flag because the owners and operators are nationals of other member states and are resident and domiciled in those states . |
| 8 | The senator did not seem to want to say much more . |
| 9 | Yet Australia 's fightback with the bat did not seem to matter as Gooch and Atherton continued their remarkable run of success as an opening pair . |
| 10 | The Church and too many of the laity do not seem to understand one another , and even the Church itself is split between the dogmatism of the sectarians and the tolerance of the more open-minded Anglicans . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For a moment the shopman did not seem to hear . |
| 13 | We are dealing with the issue of investment and the necessity for it — which , I regret to say , the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not seem to understand . |
| 14 | It was certainly a little depressing that the wealthiest and most important man in the area did not seem to admire her , as all the other men did . |
| 15 | The news did not seem to bother him unduly . |
| 16 | Our studies suggest that the arrival of bile salts in the ileum may be one of the factors that stimulate the postprandial release of PYY , although the peptide does not seem to inhibit motility locally . |
| 17 | " The student did not seem to know how to use the library ; he was mooning about the shelves instead of consulting the index . " |
| 18 | The fact that China and the USSR recognized Ho Chi Minh before the US recognized Bao Dai is sometimes taken as cause and effect ; but on closer inspection the sequence does not seem to bear that much significance . |
| 19 | They exchanged complicit smiles , and Loretta reflected that the end of the affair did not seem to have soured their friendship . |
| 20 | The Government do not seem to realise how severely consumers have been affected by the experience of recession . |
| 21 | Oddly enough , the author of the epilogue does not seem to have known the name of the king who first ordered the compilation . |
| 22 | At the Exchequer the use of reversions was to allow unqualified and inexperienced men into the department under James I ; but the deterioration does not seem to have begun before his accession . |
| 23 | The thought did not seem to disturb him unduly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As indicated earlier , the project does not seem to have built in as strong a mechanism for evaluation as it might , and it is not easy to determine the degree to which the project philosophy is alive and well in the project schools of three or four years ago . |
| 26 | The camera does not seem to have made the take-over bid for his active imagination that other people record . |
| 27 | The fellow did not seem to understand me , for he simply said again : ‘ You wo n't see a better view in the whole of England . |
| 28 | William Pitt had said something similar a hundred years before , ‘ Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ’ , but before that the idea does not seem to have been attractive . |
| 29 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 30 | The natural history of cervical cancer among older women is uncertain , but ‘ that little is known about the natural history of cancer of the cervix does not seem to have been an obstacle to the introduction of screening programmes for younger women . ’ |