Example sentences of "not seem [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 2 | What the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand is that one can have a progressive system with two rates . |
| 3 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 4 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 5 | Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped . |
| 6 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 7 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
| 8 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 9 | They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons . |
| 10 | I enjoyed Frank Close 's review of cold fusion but would like to mention a simple explanation of Fleischmann and Pons 's results which does not seem to have been discussed ( ‘ Cold fusion : the discovery that never was ’ , 19 January ) . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |
| 13 | It is difficult to assess the impact this has had , but there does not seem to have been a massive desertion of schools with poor examination results . |
| 14 | The latter process does not seem to have been very effective in the submarine fans and therefore the porosities are generally lower than those observed in the grainstones of the Hauptdolomit . |
| 15 | Moreover , the decorative features of the temple ( carvings of palmtrees , capitals like lilies , capitals festooned with network , pomegranates , and open flowers ) are all prominent in the repertory of St Polyeuktos , although they do not seem to have been current in contemporary Byzantine sculpture . |
| 16 | The chinampas of central Mexico represent a most sophisticated form of wetland agriculture and the Veracruz raised fields do not seem to have been as elaborately built . |
| 17 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 18 | Kühdorf claimed another Hurricane over Luqa , but again this does not seem to have been confirmed . |
| 19 | There was another edition of them in 1554 , then they do not seem to have been reprinted for nearly three hundred years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 22 | Yet , in spite of these accommodations to the spirit of the times , established and traditional protestantism does not seem to have been better able than Roman Catholicism to meet the challenge of industry and the big towns . |
| 23 | Such logic does not seem to have been present in the court 's decision in R v. |
| 24 | The resulting brand of individualism thus contains a radical anomaly , affecting half of those present — an anomaly which , however , does not seem to have been visible until light was specially directed on to it by feminists . |
| 25 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 26 | In spite of this , Gloucester 's links with the Cliffords themselves do not seem to have been close . |
| 27 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
| 28 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 29 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 30 | However , this did not seem to have been the case , particularly , except for the metal beads . |