Example sentences of "not seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 2 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 3 | There had not seemed to be anything worth doing . |
| 4 | when you offered a meeting which does not seemed to be in dispute , either you 're travelling to London or making yourselves available in Corma were you offering a ten minute conversation or were you anticipating that you would be able to deal with any questions he might have ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do not seem to be alone in this response . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 15 | There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership . |
| 16 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 17 | She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry . |
| 18 | Others speculate that a bad harvest around Hanoi may be to blame ( though the new arrivals do not seem to be starving ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones . |
| 21 | ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up . |
| 22 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 23 | ‘ If murder is to be reserved for those homicides which are most deserving of stigma , this does not seem to be one of them . ’ |
| 24 | It is a great shame that such a showy and obliging plant does not seem to be sold by any nursery today . |
| 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 . |