Example sentences of "[det] [noun] do not seem " in BNC.

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1 Some workers do not seem to be particularly interested in the job content of their work .
2 Obviously it is quite easy to split a subject into relatively free-standing elements , but in real life one has to use knowledge from various ‘ packages ’ to solve problems and some undergraduates do not seem to develop this ability on the modular courses .
3 It must further be stated that the restrictive effects on trade which may stem from such rules do not seem disproportionate to the end pursued .
4 But such agencies do not seem appropriate precursors of a discussion of the elaboration of lozenge designs , of the trend to scenic or elaborate figural work , or the centralisation of arrangements .
5 Seeing what ‘ Laura Ashley ’ has become today , such remarks do not seem out of place .
6 Intriguingly , these rules do not seem to apply to defined-contribution pensions bought by individuals directly from insurance companies .
7 Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ .
8 And attempts by several African countries , including Zimbabwe , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa ( would you believe it ? ) to ban sales of these soaps do not seem to have done much to lessen its ' widespread use .
9 Sometimes the name originally given is no longer apt , because of revision of genera or species ; and sometimes close species put on one plate , as with Lodge 's pictures ( which are of New Zealand birds ) , are now separated ; but these things do not seem to matter too much to the publishers and editors .
10 Sadly , these arguments do not seem to be uppermost in the current discussions at Whitehall or in the Royal College of Psychiatrists .
11 As this usually includes preflight briefing and often post-flight debriefing , these rates do not seem unreasonable .
12 These comments do not seem to be based primarily on the notion of standardization as a process ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) that might have been beginning to have an effect about this time : they present the standard language as a coherent entity — a variety , like any other variety .
13 But until about 1530 these developments do not seem to have caused any serious anxiety .
14 From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers .
15 These works do not seem to have been widely read , and his reputation as an author now rests on his Thanksgivings , published as A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation Of the Mercies of God in 1699 ‘ at the request of a Friend of the Authors ’ , who was perhaps the devotional writer Susanna Hopton [ q.v. ] ; and on a number of manuscript works which have become known , in a remarkable series of discoveries , in the course of the twentieth century .
16 Therefore the extreme versions of both theories do not seem to be supported by the empirical evidence on the demand for money , although measurement is complicated by various definitional and conceptual problems .
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