Example sentences of "do not seem " in BNC.

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1 In light rain I have measured an increase of about 8 knots in the speed for the pre-stall buffet and stall of a K13 , although the stall itself did not seem to have changed in character .
2 They did not seem to realise how fragile the ceremony was .
3 They did not seem to realise how important they were ; not self-important , but important to the incantation , the altar , the ritual .
4 Stewart 's departure , after an incident that left Paul Roberts holding his face , did not seem to affect Spurs unduly .
5 As he told the story , he did not seem too worried .
6 The aggravation did not seem to upset Jansher yesterday as he conceded only a single point to Frank Ellis as the title holders , Pakistan , started the world team championships here yesterday with a 3-0 win over Scotland .
7 Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 .
8 He did not seem the type , yet he passed his course at Achnacarry with flying colours .
9 Taff did not seem to mind going to one of the forward units .
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 It did not seem to occur to him that Ramsey had been only eighteen months in an important job for which he was perfectly fitted .
13 There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership .
14 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
15 She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry .
16 She wanted to cry and even that did not seem worth the effort .
17 She did not seem to mind and she was inordinately careful .
18 We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable .
19 ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong .
20 The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela .
21 During 1981 the Prince had been patron of the International Year of Disabled People , and met yet another vast group of people who suffered enormous hardship and prejudice , and whom society did not seem to care about .
22 The TV playback showed that Southall had held the ball for 13 seconds , although it did not seem as long at the time .
23 The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation .
24 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 .
25 What we talked about ( it was mainly the classical poetry of the eighteenth century ! ) did not seem to matter much .
26 It certainly did not seem that way at the time .
27 This last headline did not seem fully to express the collective view of the Shadow Cabinet and the next instalments of the Meacher plans for social security never appeared — much to our disappointment .
28 There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones .
29 It did not seem to have much to do with custard .
30 ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up .
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