Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 2 | For the benefit of Mr. Ian Aitken and The Guardian , and others , our objection was not to the social charter which was , of course , not even under discussion at Maastricht — although the Leader of the Opposition did not seem to know that . |
| 3 | Now , ’ he waved a fork at me , ‘ if the guy was spending more money than Bonanza expected and Bonanza did n't seem to mind what 's the obvious thing ? ’ |
| 4 | She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling . |
| 5 | The offshore industry do n't seem to be exploiting laser processing technology at all . ’ |
| 6 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 7 | People who are used to stock market investment do not seem concerned about risk and those who are worried over risk do not seem keen to put funds in the market . |
| 8 | Light did not seem to do this and so , according to Newton and many others , must be made of particles ( because two light particles could never add up to give zero , or darkness ) . |
| 9 | This last headline did not seem fully to express the collective view of the Shadow Cabinet and the next instalments of the Meacher plans for social security never appeared — much to our disappointment . |
| 10 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 11 | The action did n't seem to stop the room from spinning . |
| 12 | But the superintendent did not seem surprised . |
| 13 | The irony did not seem to strike him . |
| 14 | ‘ What I have in mind did n't seem to affect you that way last night , ’ he remarked . |
| 15 | But some of the data shown by the monitor did n't seem to make too much sense . |
| 16 | His buddy did n't seem too concerned about that and reached down for the big gun . |
| 17 | ‘ The priest did n't seem terribly concerned , being a pragmatic man . |
| 18 | Whichever motive is uppermost for them , feminist linguists engaged in sex difference research do not seem to find the idea of studying difference problematic in itself . |
| 19 | I was disappointed that the valve did n't seem to play as big a part in the sound as I was hoping , so maybe Hughes & Kettner should look at giving this part of the Attax a tweak or two . |
| 20 | Orality does not seem to be the most important factor here . |
| 21 | This effect does not seem to be the result of inhibition of pancreatic eicosanoid formation as indomethacin alone exhibited no pancreatic toxicity and combined treatment with indomethacin and cyclosporin A did not further augment the inhibitory action of indomethacin on pancreatic eicosanoid formation . |
| 22 | I told you before that thinking does n't seem to be your strong point . |
| 23 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 24 | You might charitably allow an Academic with spellcasting powers an Int test ( with a -25 penalty ) to recognize that this ritual does n't seem to have anything to do with travel , but does have quite a lot to do with death and blood . |
| 25 | Imminent and uncharacteristic collapse does not seem likely at Ibrox , where tomorrow Rangers will attain a post-war Scottish record if they draw with , or win against , Hearts . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cato 1.4 ) Professor E. Badian does not seem to me to have invalidated ( Ennius , Fondation Hardt Entretiens XVII ( 1972 ) , 155–6 ) . |
| 28 | From internal evidence , this excellent reconstruction programme does not seem to be the work of a left groupuscular intellectual , speaking in the name of the gangs . |
| 29 | This programme does not seem so radical in terms of social philosophies to warrant Lévi-Strauss 's optimism for its effects . |
| 30 | The heterotrimeric Gs protein does not seem to be a substrate for protein kinase C , and treatment of cells with pertussis toxin to remove the influence of Gi did not unmask an inhibitory effect of protein kinase C on the response to gastric inhibitory polypeptide . |