Example sentences of "does not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 2 | ( Some people think that this might be dangerous for inexperienced students , but it does not seem to cause any particular problems in Australia . ) |
| 3 | The basis of these unities does not seem to lie within the nervous system as it is currently conceived . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 6 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 7 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 10 | He does not seem to have noticed that the United States federal system is inherent in the constitution which those who joined the federation accepted on clearly defined terms . |
| 11 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 12 | ‘ The scene does not seem right for a 1987 style crash , but the more cautious will be dusting off the chartist 's recommendations to see which shares can still be sold . ’ |
| 13 | LWT needs 75 per cent of its shareholders to approve the scheme , which does not seem too difficult now the plans have been moderated . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Up ahead there is the sound of automatic fire , but it does not seem to effect us . |
| 16 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 17 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 18 | The one thing that does not seem to work in these situations is to use a large pop-up fished over the bed of baits . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Within the field of Latin American art as a whole there are still many individual artists who have not received the attention they deserve because their work does not seem to fit into any larger pattern . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While the construction of arenas bounds on — an enormous amount has been accomplished in the past month — the organisation side does not seem to show the same urgency . |
| 23 | Then you notice that there are cobbles in the yard , there is lichen on the golden hamstone dressings , the iron railings keeping the cows from the garden are refined and elegant , and the carved and hooded doorway does not seem to herald the entrance to an ordinary farmhouse . |
| 24 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 25 | TIME does not seem to mellow China 's prime minister , Mr Li Peng . |
| 26 | The rule of law does not seem to work in settling people 's grievances . |
| 27 | Fortunately increased gastrin production does not seem to cause any untoward effects on people . |
| 28 | It does not seem that we necessarily are always simply taken , let alone overtaken , by our desires , so that they act themselves out in us as the force of the wind acts on a leaf . |
| 29 | It does not seem possible to explain away the legal rights and duties of a body as being merely the rights and duties of the individuals composing it ; and |
| 30 | Admittedly , the British Isles had substantial tin deposits , a resource which Egypt does not seem to have possessed . |