Example sentences of "[adj] do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 2 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 3 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 4 | We 've had a list of anecdotes designed to panic the public and patience of Councillor and I was disappointed that Liberal do n't seem to understand that the Health Authorities have now been given the op the responsibility for planning and provisional health care in er in health authorities . |
| 5 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 6 | The eight twelves do n't seem particularly bothered about any other area but their valley . ’ |
| 7 | Those do n't seem to correspond with suggestion of the tight close proximity of your figures . |
| 8 | ‘ The country we are describing is Britain , and Labour do n't seem to recognise it . |
| 9 | That do n't seem very bright does it ? |
| 10 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 11 | Homozygotes for the mutation at codon 200 do not seem to differ clinically from heterozygotes , which indicates that inherited prion disease ( PrP lysine 200 ) is a fully dominant disorder . |
| 12 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 13 | Yet the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s do not seem to have generated such political tension at home : victory and profit undoubtedly provide part of the explanation , but so too do changes in the methods of military recruitment and a conciliatory approach on the part of the king to the question of taxation . |
| 14 | In general the years from 1793 to 1815 do not seem to have been particularly bad in real-wage experience for the Cornish miners , though they suffered like others from the famine price levels of 1795 , 1801 and 1812 , in each of which crises they rioted . |