Example sentences of "not seem [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if it is just , it does not seem to be comprehensive . |
| 2 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 3 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 4 | Speakers and listeners do not seem to be necessary . |
| 5 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 6 | Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms . |
| 7 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 8 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 9 | Another is that gravity does not seem to be renormalizable ; in order to obtain finite answers , it seems that one may have to make an infinite number of infinite subtractions with a correspondingly infinite number of undetermined finite remainders . |
| 10 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |
| 11 | Sadly , these arguments do not seem to be uppermost in the current discussions at Whitehall or in the Royal College of Psychiatrists . |
| 12 | Large units do not seem to be deficient in democratic qualities and may even be more democratic in some respects ; 4 . |
| 13 | We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units . |
| 14 | We wish to express concern about the above scheme which does not seem to be compatible with the environmental principles adopted by the European Community over recent years . |
| 15 | Robert too did not seem to be unhappy . |
| 16 | You do not seem to be unhappy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ it does not seem to be far from the truth that the freedom with which a person can walk about and look around is a very useful guide to the civilized quality of an urban area . |
| 18 | Full data on the Barbara 's performance in service do not seem to be available any longer . |
| 19 | But significantly , table 7.1 also shows that it does not seem to be possible to elicit sharp judgements of acceptability which can be used to divide grammatical from ungrammatical sentences . |
| 20 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 21 | They do not seem to be adequate to all the convolutions of gendered subjectivities , however . |
| 22 | The malignancies of children whose fathers were monitored for exposure to ionising radiation did not seem to be atypical : all had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia , their ages at diagnosis were not unusual , and the time of their diagnosis was not concentrated in any particular period . |
| 23 | Dr Alex Schmid , the founder of P100M , categorised the many academics who did not seem to be interested in human rights . |
| 24 | The Government , through their tax regimes , do not seem to be interested in that . |
| 25 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 26 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 27 | Dr Evans had made several visits as well , and was able to report that the damage to Faye 's eyes did not seem to be worsening . |
| 28 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 29 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 30 | But such work did not seem to be forthcoming , and his sole immediate chance of usefulness was to become an air-raid warden for his area of Kensington : in this new role , he had to rehearse the procedure for marshalling people in the event of an air raid , and to practise his fire drill by putting out bonfires in Emperor 's Gate . |