Example sentences of "not seem to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if it is just , it does not seem to be comprehensive . |
| 2 | The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both . |
| 3 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 4 | More broadly , there does not seem to be one simple hierarchy of types of job ( running from the most unskilled and casual up to the most responsible and secure ) , rather there are a number of different labour markets , partitioned from each other , and some operating on a sort of grapevine . |
| 5 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 6 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 7 | Speakers and listeners do not seem to be necessary . |
| 8 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 9 | Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms . |
| 10 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 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 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , even taking the argument as it stands , there does not seem to be much evidence to support it . |
| 14 | There does not seem to be much evidence that heavy discounting would actually grow the market , which shows all the signs at the moment of being pretty inelastic . |
| 15 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 16 | One problem is that there do not seem to be many potentially blue-chip names in the pipeline , ready to join what is now a severely restricted group . |
| 17 | Another is that gravity does not seem to be renormalizable ; in order to obtain finite answers , it seems that one may have to make an infinite number of infinite subtractions with a correspondingly infinite number of undetermined finite remainders . |
| 18 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |
| 19 | Sadly , these arguments do not seem to be uppermost in the current discussions at Whitehall or in the Royal College of Psychiatrists . |
| 20 | Large units do not seem to be deficient in democratic qualities and may even be more democratic in some respects ; 4 . |
| 21 | We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units . |
| 22 | We wish to express concern about the above scheme which does not seem to be compatible with the environmental principles adopted by the European Community over recent years . |
| 23 | Robert too did not seem to be unhappy . |
| 24 | You do not seem to be unhappy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ it does not seem to be far from the truth that the freedom with which a person can walk about and look around is a very useful guide to the civilized quality of an urban area . |
| 26 | Full data on the Barbara 's performance in service do not seem to be available any longer . |
| 27 | But significantly , table 7.1 also shows that it does not seem to be possible to elicit sharp judgements of acceptability which can be used to divide grammatical from ungrammatical sentences . |
| 28 | Two space dimensions do not seem to be enough to allow for the development of complicated beings like us . |
| 29 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 30 | They do not seem to be adequate to all the convolutions of gendered subjectivities , however . |