Example sentences of "not seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
| 2 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 3 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 4 | There had not seemed to be anything worth doing . |
| 5 | when you offered a meeting which does not seemed to be in dispute , either you 're travelling to London or making yourselves available in Corma were you offering a ten minute conversation or were you anticipating that you would be able to deal with any questions he might have ? |
| 6 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the required energy coupling capacitors cause problems and can be expensive at higher current levels , and there does not seem to be any proof that there is a volume , weight , or cost saving over the standard Buck topology for any given equivalent performance level . |
| 8 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 9 | I do not seem to be alone in this response . |
| 10 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 11 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 12 | One problem is that there do not seem to be many potentially blue-chip names in the pipeline , ready to join what is now a severely restricted group . |
| 13 | While the fashion lasts , these are considerable : figures of £200,000 to £300,000 in profit for one well-organised party are being bandied about , and do not seem to be greatly exaggerated . |
| 14 | Neighbourhood men are often the butt of jokes among section police about their laziness , because what the neighbourhood police do does not seem to them like work , and certainly not ‘ real ’ police work . |
| 15 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 16 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 17 | There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership . |
| 18 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 19 | She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry . |
| 20 | It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum . |
| 21 | Others speculate that a bad harvest around Hanoi may be to blame ( though the new arrivals do not seem to be starving ) . |
| 22 | WHEN it was published in a journal called Cell in April 1986 , ‘ Altered Repertoire of Endogenous Immunoglobulin Gene Expression in Transgenic Mice Containing a Rearranged Mu Heavy Chain Gene ’ did not seem to be the stuff of history . |
| 23 | There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones . |
| 24 | ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up . |
| 25 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 26 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 27 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 28 | It is a great shame that such a showy and obliging plant does not seem to be sold by any nursery today . |
| 29 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 30 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |