Example sentences of "[adj] does [not/n't] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not seem to affect his boxing , however , for he won the title for which he challenges tonight twice , and he held the light flyweight championship through three defences . |
| 2 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 3 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 4 | This does not seem to correspond to any community published elsewhere , but of course the environment is rather marginal for woodland growth at this locality . |
| 5 | In the oceans , this does not seem to be so . |
| 6 | Long term insect action may produce modifications similar to that produced by wood-boring insects on dead wood ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ; Thorne & Kimsey , 1983 ) , but this does not seem to be common . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the proportions of vegetation destroyed in temperate habitats are much less , and this does not seem to be a limiting factor in these areas . |
| 8 | On the whole this does not seem likely . |
| 9 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 10 | Fortunately this does not seem to matter too much in some applications — eg amalgams are used to replace dentine , polymethylmethacrylate replaces the lens of the eye and titanium replaces the bone of the femur . |
| 11 | This does not seem to be the case . |
| 12 | Kühdorf claimed another Hurricane over Luqa , but again this does not seem to have been confirmed . |
| 13 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 14 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 15 | Unfortunately in practice this does not seem to be a possibility . |
| 16 | It may , therefore , be more productive to work within the limitations imposed by the data than to continue to explore art-styles as a root to chronological precision when this does not seem possible because of the unknown number of unknown variables . |
| 17 | Even this does not seem a sufficient explanation . |
| 18 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 19 | On the face of it , however , this does not seem to favour an anti-correctionalist position , but rather a redirection of its focus from lower-to upper-class crime . |
| 20 | Of the 14 surviving patients in this report , all had required support with intravenous infusions of cardiac drugs before transplantation , and , in addition , some had developed secondary renal and hepatic dysfunction ; clearly this does not seem to mitigate against a successful outcome to transplantation . |
| 21 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 22 | This does not seem to have caused them undue concern . |
| 23 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 24 | Provided the dose of the anaesthetic is sufficiently large this does not seem to have happened . |
| 25 | We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units . |
| 26 | However , it is too difficult to think up a complete theory of everything all at one go ( though this does not seem to stop some people ; I get two or three unified theories in the mail each week ) . |
| 27 | Critics argue that this does not seem to be very realistic . |
| 28 | Over recent years much work has been done to promote more positive images of women in mathematics , but this does not seem to have developed into a comparable awareness concerning race or class . |
| 29 | The wage differential ( ) has been treated as representing the effects of unionization , but this does not seem a particularly satisfactory way of investigating union behaviour . |
| 30 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |