Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 2 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
| 3 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 4 | People who are used to stock market investment do not seem concerned about risk and those who are worried over risk do not seem keen to put funds in the market . |
| 5 | Light did not seem to do this and so , according to Newton and many others , must be made of particles ( because two light particles could never add up to give zero , or darkness ) . |
| 6 | This last headline did not seem fully to express the collective view of the Shadow Cabinet and the next instalments of the Meacher plans for social security never appeared — much to our disappointment . |
| 7 | But the superintendent did not seem surprised . |
| 8 | The irony did not seem to strike him . |
| 9 | Whichever motive is uppermost for them , feminist linguists engaged in sex difference research do not seem to find the idea of studying difference problematic in itself . |
| 10 | Orality does not seem to be the most important factor here . |
| 11 | This effect does not seem to be the result of inhibition of pancreatic eicosanoid formation as indomethacin alone exhibited no pancreatic toxicity and combined treatment with indomethacin and cyclosporin A did not further augment the inhibitory action of indomethacin on pancreatic eicosanoid formation . |
| 12 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 13 | Imminent and uncharacteristic collapse does not seem likely at Ibrox , where tomorrow Rangers will attain a post-war Scottish record if they draw with , or win against , Hearts . |
| 14 | While the construction of arenas bounds on — an enormous amount has been accomplished in the past month — the organisation side does not seem to show the same urgency . |
| 15 | Cato 1.4 ) Professor E. Badian does not seem to me to have invalidated ( Ennius , Fondation Hardt Entretiens XVII ( 1972 ) , 155–6 ) . |
| 16 | From internal evidence , this excellent reconstruction programme does not seem to be the work of a left groupuscular intellectual , speaking in the name of the gangs . |
| 17 | This programme does not seem so radical in terms of social philosophies to warrant Lévi-Strauss 's optimism for its effects . |
| 18 | The heterotrimeric Gs protein does not seem to be a substrate for protein kinase C , and treatment of cells with pertussis toxin to remove the influence of Gi did not unmask an inhibitory effect of protein kinase C on the response to gastric inhibitory polypeptide . |
| 19 | The discussion presented has the benefit of hindsight : although each idea appears obvious and in an obvious sequence , most were not obvious at the time they were discovered , the steps were not considered in this order and the overall result does not seem obvious even now . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The indignation has a strained and petty air about it : Joe 's greatest crime does not seem to be his contribution to the deaths of 21 servicemen but his letting down his son , who can no longer regard him as a hero . |
| 22 | However the collapse of the wavepacket does not seem to carry information of this kind so that there does not appear to be a prima facie case of contradiction . |
| 23 | Then you notice that there are cobbles in the yard , there is lichen on the golden hamstone dressings , the iron railings keeping the cows from the garden are refined and elegant , and the carved and hooded doorway does not seem to herald the entrance to an ordinary farmhouse . |
| 24 | The practice does not seem to be very common . |
| 25 | The chronic use of bronchodilator therapy does not seem to influence adversely the oesophageal mucosal disease . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the balance of the domestic division of labour does not seem to be related to the work done by men . |
| 27 | Labour does not seem interested in getting inflation down . |
| 28 | The hon. Lady did not seem to realise that the diversification policy of those industries can not be cross-financed from the core businesses — I wish that the hon. Lady would listen , because she might learn something and avoid mistakes in future . |
| 29 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 30 | On the face of it , this plan of campaign did not seem very innovative . |