Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] seem [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Explaining the proposals , MCC secretary Col John Stephenson said : ‘ We have had to cater for all cricket , so it may not seem to be as tough as some people have been demanding . |
| 3 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 4 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |
| 5 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |
| 6 | Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There might not seem to be anything unusual about this group of people until someone who 's a mere five footer joins the line-up . |
| 9 | I could n't seem to be bothered to move . |
| 10 | So , sometimes we get this feeling of empathy and do things with a horse that would not seem to be wise or sensible ; but we ‘ know ’ that it will be all right , and it is ! |
| 11 | If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future . |
| 12 | One such seat would not seem to be an excessive demand in pursuit of an accepted objective , but it was more than the Conference would accept . |
| 13 | My answer to that would be that er since the only permissible reason for pushing out this inset boundary would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built development , and built development would not seem to be within er the possibility of er Policy E N V One as well as within the possibility of er other policies |
| 14 | The lamella crystal itself , sometimes considered as embedded in an amorphous matrix , would not seem to be an acceptable RVE because its modulus is dependent upon the surface tractions . |
| 15 | This approach is difficult to reconcile with the principle of supremacy of Community law and would not seem to be the correct way to apply the principle of indirect effect the duty of the national courts to interpret national law as far as possible to bring it into line with Community obligations . |
| 16 | Where there is provision for automatic accruer , such consent to its operation would not seem to be required . |
| 17 | there would n't seem to be any purpose it , would n't be right |
| 18 | cos we ca n't seem to be , cos otherwise we look like flipping idiots |