Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] do not seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases of incoherence , when the text does not seem to be co-operating in providing access to a resolution of its meaning , readers have two strategic options . |
| 2 | The practice does not seem to be very common . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , his concern about the issue does not seem to be adequately conceptualised nor related to more general issues concerning the strains on family life . |
| 4 | The need did not seem to me , in most cases , to be neurotic in the sense of being unhealthy . |
| 5 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |
| 6 | The other did not seem to be a real problem at all . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it is a sign of the approach of middle age in your reporter by the supper did not seem to be as good this year . |
| 8 | The browns had a grey tinge to them and the richness of the burr did not seem to properly come out . |
| 9 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
| 10 | Maybe at the end of our enquiry we shall decide that no philosophical sense can be made of the world — and the world does not seem to be primarily linguistic . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The produce did not seem to be of high quality . |
| 13 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 14 | The adviser argued that the school as a whole did not seem to be discussing , or have any explicit policy on multicultural education . |