Example sentences of "not seem to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I do not seem to be alone in this response .
5 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 .
6 THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so .
12 There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership .
13 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
14 She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry .
15 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 .
16 Others speculate that a bad harvest around Hanoi may be to blame ( though the new arrivals do not seem to be starving ) .
17 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 .
18 There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones .
19 ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up .
20 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 .
21 Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt .
22 ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’
23 It is a great shame that such a showy and obliging plant does not seem to be sold by any nursery today .
24 ‘ 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 . ’
25 It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference .
26 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 .
27 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 !
28 If we teach a horse to move to the right away from the pressure of a rider 's leg on their left side ; they do not seem to be able to reason that pressure on the right side is intended to make them move to the left .
29 People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words .
30 Maybe at the end of our enquiry we shall decide that no philosophical sense can be made of the world — and the world does not seem to be primarily linguistic .
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