Example sentences of "it does not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Some people think that this might be dangerous for inexperienced students , but it does not seem to cause any particular problems in Australia . ) |
| 2 | Up ahead there is the sound of automatic fire , but it does not seem to effect us . |
| 3 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 4 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It does not seem that we necessarily are always simply taken , let alone overtaken , by our desires , so that they act themselves out in us as the force of the wind acts on a leaf . |
| 7 | It does not seem possible to explain away the legal rights and duties of a body as being merely the rights and duties of the individuals composing it ; and |
| 8 | It does not seem wildly improper to apply this to Rose of Lima three hundred years later . |
| 9 | It does not seem implausible to suppose , therefore , that it is the loyalism of the DUP rather than the evangelicalism of many of its leaders that accounts for its support , especially in the greater Belfast urban area . |
| 10 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her . ’ |
| 12 | It is a pretty daunting prospect going on stage for forty minutes but it does not seem to have fazed her , ’ said the millionaire producer . |
| 13 | It does not seem sensible . ’ |
| 14 | And Henry Fonda 's Tom Joad is so human that it does not seem like acting . |
| 15 | It does not seem to take into account that many people may be quite grateful to have restrictions imposed on their sexual behaviour , while others can perfectly well get on with what they want to do and keep quiet about it . |
| 16 | However as Gorbachev managed to outsmart Reagan at every meeting it does not seem that Gordievsky 's advice was particularly useful and Reagan would probably have got on better without him . |
| 17 | With reference to the early part of the century Eagleton writes : ‘ It does not seem that the emulsive space of the public sphere extended beyond parsons and surgeons to farm labourers or domestic servants … |
| 18 | ‘ It does not seem to be a hive of industry , ’ Morton said . |
| 19 | What it does not seem to me to offer , and what seems crucial for the intensely generic regime which television operates , is the beginning of a theory of genre specific to television which addresses not only the systems , but the forms of subjectivity which these systems imply . |
| 20 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |
| 21 | New synthetic chemicals and new antibiotics have been discovered and brought into use , but at present ( 1990 ) it does not seem likely that tuberculosis will be eradicated simply by the discovery of effective drugs . |
| 22 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 23 | It does not seem right if all of them succeed . |
| 24 | They turn out a little patchy , but it does not seem to matter to the fish . |
| 25 | Once , however , the National Curriculum entitlement is in place it does not seem likely that parents will welcome any ‘ experiment ’ . |
| 26 | Since the main function of bone collecting by porcupines seems to keep their incisors in good condition rather than as food , it does not seem likely that small mammal bone could serve any useful purpose from the porcupine 's point of view . |
| 27 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 28 | If substantial structural change is taking place , then , it does not seem to be following the lines which would be suggested by public choice theory . |
| 29 | Given the range of institutions and the varying sets of social relations involved , it does not seem surprising that there should have been an increase in the diversity of local politics . |
| 30 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |