Example sentences of "not seem to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet the full range of communion available to fellow members of a species , even between strangers from different parts of the world , does not seem to be normally available across species boundaries . |
| 3 | By 1923 the country was very prosperous and the general public did not seem to be particularly shocked by the revelations . |
| 4 | Some workers do not seem to be particularly interested in the job content of their work . |
| 5 | The man has not been reported missing , his office does not seem to be particularly worried about him , nor does his daughter . " |
| 6 | Thus , in health , there does not seem to be either an attenuation of secretory pathways mediating gastric acid secretion or end organ resistance to stimulation . |
| 7 | Cross-sector links between primary and secondary schools did not seem to be well developed . |
| 8 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 9 | Forbes ( 1933 ) and Snodgrass ( 1935 ) have introduced changes in the nomenclature of the cubito-anal veins which do not seem to be widely accepted while Vignon ( 1929 ) has an unorthodox modification of the Comstock-Needham system . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , his concern about the issue does not seem to be adequately conceptualised nor related to more general issues concerning the strains on family life . |
| 11 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 12 | Jotan 's tunic was hanging in tatters , but he did not seem to be badly injured . |
| 13 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 14 | By contrast , the Re-Os system does not seem to be strongly influenced by the processes that cause the SCLM to be enriched in incompatible trace elements . |
| 15 | And yet , when she talked , she seemed to be there , and with them ; she did not seem to be elsewhere . |
| 16 | All this training for a game that does not seem to be exactly demanding in a physical sense ! |
| 17 | But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed . |
| 18 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the oceans , this does not seem to be so . |
| 21 | Latin and Anglo-Saxon temperaments are at variance about what would constitute an acceptable noise level ; and young people do not seem to be so intolerant of noise as their elders . |
| 22 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 23 | Frogs and toads occasionally employ this device , but it does not seem to be very widespread among these amphibians . |
| 24 | Mother cats do not seem to be very efficient at counting their kittens and if the newcomers have become covered in the ‘ home scent ’ , all is well . |
| 25 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 26 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 27 | Thinking and fantasizing seem to have constituted the majority of Foulkes 's and Vogel 's subjects ' reports , but while it is possible to make fine distinctions between levels of sleep depth using EEG/ EOG measures , these did not seem to be very predictive of the quality of experience reported . |
| 28 | Critics argue that this does not seem to be very realistic . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |