Example sentences of "seem not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern did not hear him or at least seemed not to . |
| 2 | Car lights came round a bend from that direction and seemed not to be travelling too fast . |
| 3 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 4 | Our prayers for ‘ God 's ancient people , the Jews ’ seemed not to be answered . |
| 5 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 6 | Dimly she saw the Great Tower peak in a cone of white flame ; Adam seemed not to move , but Fand and Liban fell , and Fincara staggered before the sheeting fire . |
| 7 | The Doctor , however , seemed not to be awed by the glowing tangle . |
| 8 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 9 | The man seemed not to be listening ; he was cursing her — a growing crescendo of long-hoarded hatred and fear . |
| 10 | Luke seemed not to be breathing ; he did n't blink . |
| 11 | For those few moments life seemed not to be quite the noisome beast it had become of late — the pale November sun was a warming coin in the palm , fear was forgotten , bloodshed cleansed away , losses solaced . |
| 12 | Burun seemed not to be perturbed . |
| 13 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 14 | The problem seemed not to be urgent , but counting back , it had been three whole days … or was it only two ? |
| 15 | They seemed not to be , but it was difficult to be sure that they had not simply managed to turn away again in time . |
| 16 | Helen 's back was very straight and she seemed not to be eating . |
| 17 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |
| 18 | He really seemed not to be quite on the ball . ’ |
| 19 | Only she , of all the women , seemed not to be competing for his attention . |
| 20 | Although she seemed not to be doing a lot of that these days . |
| 21 | A very quick try , 2 penalty kicks and Gloucester seemed not to be coasting to the win , but a very unlikely defeat . |
| 22 | Pleasant puddings seemed not to be home made either . |
| 23 | I would like to have read more on the subject by Frank Bowling , whose views seem not to be harmonised with Araeen 's somewhat dogmatic viewpoint . |
| 24 | The man in the street accepts that all French politicians are in it together and , as a result , charges of corruption seem not to be followed up , even when they are as spectacular as the current scandal concerning the dirty financing of President Mitterrand 's election campaign in 1988 . |
| 25 | Death rates seem not to be a very good indicator of disease rates either . |
| 26 | The trouble is that they seem not to . |
| 27 | The Harvard linguists seem not to be making this kind of claim , however . |
| 28 | International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas . |
| 29 | Colobines select foliage maximizing nitrogen and mineral input and minimizing digestibility retardant fibre ( and possibly some tannins ) : alkaloids seem not to be a deterrent as many can probably be detoxified by bacteria in the foregut . |
| 30 | But for some reason , this year people seem not to be keen to register . |