Example sentences of "[Wh det] do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is remarkable how this interest extends even to topics which do not seem related to the main themes of his studies . |
| 2 | Use an orange or yellow pencil for the remainder , that is , things you are unsure about or which do not seem to fit clearly into either the good or the bad categories . |
| 3 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 4 | And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings . |
| 5 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 6 | Forbes ( 1933 ) and Snodgrass ( 1935 ) have introduced changes in the nomenclature of the cubito-anal veins which do not seem to be widely accepted while Vignon ( 1929 ) has an unorthodox modification of the Comstock-Needham system . |
| 7 | If we can identify style markers , we shall rule out , simply by ignoring them , whole areas of the English language which do not seem to be exploited in any unusual way in a particular text . |
| 8 | However , there are some courses which do not seem to fall naturally under either the ‘ professional ’ or ‘ academic ’ heading . |
| 9 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |
| 10 | Moreover , the best lunar analogue for the Mercurian smooth plains are not the maria , which are the best candidates on the Moon for volcanic activity , but the lunar highland plains , which do not seem to have a volcanic origin . |
| 11 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 12 | So that 's rather depressing actually , that a lot of students will go into RADAR and various other sorts of defence things which do n't seem to me to be increasing the sum of human happiness . |