Example sentences of "did not seem to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the lesson there did not seem to be any movement towards better understanding through exploring examples , as intended , or even towards using the guesses to encourage the type of investigative interactions the designer had envisaged . |
| 32 | Thinking and fantasizing seem to have constituted the majority of Foulkes 's and Vogel 's subjects ' reports , but while it is possible to make fine distinctions between levels of sleep depth using EEG/ EOG measures , these did not seem to be very predictive of the quality of experience reported . |
| 33 | By 1923 the country was very prosperous and the general public did not seem to be particularly shocked by the revelations . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Still resolute , she turned to the desk : something was wrong , her books and papers did not seem to be in their usual place . |
| 36 | It did not seem to be the man or his capacities that changed in these cases , so much as the needs and expectations of his followers , organizations , and markets . |
| 37 | Robert too did not seem to be unhappy . |
| 38 | Influence can also be exerted where the partnership is with a housing association , yet this did not seem to be happening . |
| 39 | This highly developed system of teaching did not seem to be working well . |
| 40 | Patents protecting new products appeared to be more important than patents protecting processes , but , nevertheless , did not seem to be as effective as lead time , learning curve advantages , and marketing advantages . |
| 41 | He certainly did not seem to be missing her and , unless someone else mentioned her , he never did . |
| 42 | He was laughing with a group of female technicians and did not seem to be aware that anything unusual had happened . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Jotan 's tunic was hanging in tatters , but he did not seem to be badly injured . |
| 45 | The malignancies of children whose fathers were monitored for exposure to ionising radiation did not seem to be atypical : all had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia , their ages at diagnosis were not unusual , and the time of their diagnosis was not concentrated in any particular period . |
| 46 | The Glovers stood around at a loss ; this did not seem to be the sort of place in which business could be carried on . |
| 47 | She did not seem to be moving around . |
| 48 | And then , because there did not seem to be any reason to wait , they moved cautiously to the door at the far end of the wood-store and inched it open . |
| 49 | Although she did not seem to be listening , Dexter knew from experience that she would remember everything important he had told her . |
| 50 | The Shah shared much of Behbehanians suspicion of the British , But now in Aswan , he did not seem to be greatly in favour of Behbehanians suggestion that he throw himself in their mercy . |
| 51 | His brief judgments were conscientiously prepared , but his heart did not seem to be in the job . |
| 52 | For some reason people did not seem to be able to accept the possibility of two people who were ‘ going steady ’ being in a state of temporary misunderstanding — the common condition of love ; it had to be make or break , ‘ very fond of each other ’ or ‘ broken it off ’ . |
| 53 | Though the constitutional case against the Irish government was dismissed in the Dublin High Court the general tenor and legalism of its defence did not seem to be entirely in accord with the spirit of Sunningdale . |
| 54 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 55 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
| 56 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 57 | Greg was uncertain how to respond to this addendum , which did not seem to be addressed to him . |
| 58 | Dr Evans had made several visits as well , and was able to report that the damage to Faye 's eyes did not seem to be worsening . |
| 59 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 60 | Prior involvement in course validation did not seem to be a major factor . |