Example sentences of "[adv] do [not/n't] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 2 | Th What 's happened is that this spelling , th this reversal of spelling has occurred in English , as some of you obviously do n't seem to know and your modern English versions you speak used it . |
| 3 | We 'll start with that obviously do n't seem to be very forthcoming here ! |
| 4 | But then the little bedroom was n't so did n't seem so damp . |
| 5 | Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child . |
| 6 | That it is now compulsory to do so does not seem to increase that duty and , correspondingly , the plaintiff 's share in the responsibility for the damage he suffers . |
| 7 | The fact that they can see how counterproductive it is not only does n't seem to stop them , it makes matters worse . |
| 8 | This action alone does not seem fair , however Portia is neither just . |
| 9 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 10 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
| 11 | ‘ These pointless deaths just do not seem to stop . ’ |
| 12 | But just do n't seem to have the time or even the energy ? |
| 13 | ‘ The League just do n't seem able to sort it out , ’ Taylor said yesterday . |
| 14 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 15 | Even on the richest land drought is damaging , but in a garden with sharp-draining soil — especially on a hot , south-facing site — it can create a positive dust bowl , a place where plants just do n't seem to survive . |
| 16 | They just do n't seem to care . |
| 17 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Hirst is not for sale at any price but they just do n't seem to want to accept that . |
| 19 | ‘ They just do n't seem to understand , even though I tell them it 's a lot of fun . ’ |
| 20 | As we have already seen , physics students made very strong ( hierarchical ) distinctions between physics and chemistry , and between physics and other disciplines — and even between subdivisions in the department itself ; one final-year student noted in B that ‘ on the top floor , one half is theoretical physics , one is experimental physics and they just do n't seem to mix ’ . |
| 21 | You see what happens here , people just do n't seem to care . |
| 22 | Because they just do n't seem to be aware of the difficulties , people have of living on on the breadline and under the breadline . |
| 23 | They just do n't seem to happen . |
| 24 | When I explain what has caused offence , they just do n't seem to see the problem . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 26 | But er they just do n't seem to employ the boys |
| 27 | But that was another thing nowadays they , they just do n't seem to bother at all if the mother gets torn , now in those days it was a terrible disgrace to g to er if you had a , had a delivery and the mother was torn . |
| 28 | But nowadays they just do n't seem to bother at all . |
| 29 | A lot of the others like McWhirter just do n't seem to care . |
| 30 | ’ You know , Mr. Kopek , ’ she said at last , ’ I do n't know whether it 's this new technology or just the way I 'm feeling this morning , but I just do n't seem to be able to take this in . ’ |