Example sentences of "[noun prp] do [adv] seem " in BNC.

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1 Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years .
2 At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable .
3 ‘ There 's a lot o' difference in their ages , an' Fred do n't seem the sort o' bloke who 'd be a cheerful soul ter be wiv .
4 For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years .
5 His kinsmen in Norway do n't seem to have suffered .
6 Don Mathew , who compiled the survey , said : ‘ Councils in Middlesbrough , Newcastle and Gateshead do n't seem to care about cyclists whereas York really tries .
7 The family connections of the Pastons in Norfolk do not seem to have been quite so far-reaching among the gentry families there as those of the Stonors , although Margaret Mauteby , the wife of the elder John Paston , was the daughter of another gentleman of the shire .
8 Indeed , schools like Burleigh do not seem to be the sort of places from which writers emerge .
9 Asda do n't seem to have much left over do they ?
10 To be honest , I think this is a bit flattering because Leeds do n't seem to have clicked yet .
11 Some of the magnates were motivated by personal or local considerations : the northern lords , Wake , Neville and Percy , were concerned at the neglect of the defence of the northern border as Edward 's continental campaigns swallowed up all the available resources ; but Arundel , Warenne and Huntingdon do not seem to have had personal grievances against the king , and their role in the crisis still awaits a satisfactory explanation .
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