Example sentences of "seems never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He observes the prohibition against ‘ talking shop ’ , whereas Pound through his London years seems never to have talked anything else . |
| 2 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 3 | The selection of bars seems never ending . |
| 4 | Closeness to a grandmother 's death seems never to have invoked the intense emotional experiences which those who nursed a parent or spouse sometimes recall with such striking physical intimacy . |
| 5 | That some of this waste is unavoidable is probably true , for the aggressive instinct seems never to be satisfied with entirely impersonal objectives . |
| 6 | His salary should have been adequate , with the perquisites of office , and though salaries were often not paid promptly , he seems never to have been in need . |
| 7 | The Welsh bishop of Llandaff seems never to have submitted , and it was not until 1107 that Anselm was able to consecrate a bishop thoroughly devoted to the interests of Canterbury . |
| 8 | The British men 's magazine market seems never to have outgrown its tedious fascination with fast boats and faster cars . |
| 9 | The precise membership seems never to have been defined , though it has always included members of the county advisory staff , members of the Project Coordinating Team , teachers from project and non-project schools , teachers ' centre wardens , and DCSLs . |
| 10 | But his near-contemporary J. Chalmers , who had begun his apprenticeship in August 1900 , found himself still stuck at 14s in 1907 , when he was 21 years old , and over the next year or two his pay was usually between 23s and 27s a week : he seems never to have made it to 32s . |
| 11 | It seems never to have been doubted that a corporation created by Royal Charter can sue for libel . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , the court seems never to have decided this ‘ territoriality ’ question in relation to the predecessor sections in the earlier Acts , such as sections 42 and 44 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 , section 320 of the Companies Act 1948 and section 172 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 13 | It seems never to occur to them to put down next anything other than what a reader wants next to know . |
| 14 | This allegation seems never to have been proved , but , in connected proceedings brought against the sheriff of Surrey , a jury found that Inge had borrowed the plaintiff 's original writ from the sheriff and tampered with it . |
| 15 | His final patent , taken out in 1863 , for improvements in the manufacture of caustic soda and caustic potash , seems never to have gone beyond the experimental stage . |
| 16 | He seems never to have married . |
| 17 | Even more paradoxically , that distinguished son of Marseilles , Pytheas , who discovered the north of Europe , seems never to have travelled inside France . |
| 18 | Alicia died only four years after the Royal Fort was ‘ completed ’ and Thomas seems never to hade have the heart to complete a work that breathes an air of happy domesticity . |
| 19 | He seems never to have been close to his sister . |