Example sentences of "seem not " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him and seemed not to see him . |
| 2 | She was n't sure she wanted to return , but seemed not to have much choice anymore , and so she stayed . |
| 3 | Etam sales , up 32 per cent to £84.3m on an increase in trading space of 29 per cent , appeared to benefit from the hot summer weather and its low-priced fashion for younger women seemed not to suffer greatly from the effects of higher mortgages . |
| 4 | The other people seemed not to notice . |
| 5 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern did not hear him or at least seemed not to . |
| 7 | Mrs Hollidaye seemed not to have heard . |
| 8 | She seemed not to have to exert her vocal chords to extra volume . |
| 9 | Wearing only pyjama bottoms , he seemed not much taller than Mungo , but his chest and shoulders were immensely strong , like those of a boxer . |
| 10 | He seemed not to notice that his comment had met with no response . |
| 11 | As Devon Loch struggled up there was still time for him to get going again and hold off E.S.B. , but his hind legs seemed not to function and he could not move on . |
| 12 | North told his colleagues that the release of the hostages was a personal obligation on himself , and that seemed not to put it too strongly . |
| 13 | All the same , the Catholic cathedral of the Immaculate Conception , built in the 1870s , had many good qualities that the Pennsylvanians seemed not to appreciate . |
| 14 | The younger enthusiasts of revolution , those who fervently accepted the ideals of The Green Book , seemed not to recognize the hard political work of the administrators nor to pay much attention to such discrepancies between ideology and practice as forced themselves into the consciousness of Libyans with wider experience of the ways of government . |
| 15 | Car lights came round a bend from that direction and seemed not to be travelling too fast . |
| 16 | The stones seemed not to weigh the room towards the earth but to be ready to lift it into the sky . |
| 17 | But even when he managed a very convincing Frankie Howerd imitation — eyebrows raised , cheeks sucked in , mouth open in a little ‘ oh ’ of mock surprise , Mr Kinnock seemed not to notice . |
| 18 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 19 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |
| 20 | Fur the modernists , on the other hand , history seemed not progress but nightmare , and the clock itself a threat . |
| 21 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 22 | By the later stages of the performance he had become increasingly sulky , though the fräulein , wrapped up in her own problems as usual , seemed not to notice . |
| 23 | Our prayers for ‘ God 's ancient people , the Jews ’ seemed not to be answered . |
| 24 | Atkins seemed not to notice that ‘ selection policies based on the political policies of the local authority ’ combined with his earlier statement that ‘ censorship is the banning of material on political grounds ’ inevitably means that , for this librarian at least , censorship is an admitted and major constituent of the selection process . |
| 25 | Even the bustling atmosphere of the 550 building itself seemed not to have invaded the Hugo Varna floor . |
| 26 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 27 | But the Friar 's wits had not yet returned to him and he seemed not to hear what the Trapper said . |
| 28 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 29 | ‘ Not a thousand men appeared , ’ the Earl Marischal summed up , ‘ and even those seemed not very fond of the enterprise . ’ |
| 30 | Phillis seemed not to care . |