Example sentences of "not seem [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The lack of an epistemological foundation for the sociology of knowledge did not seem to all philosophers to signal its failure . |
| 4 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 5 | Within this framework , the feat of believing that someone will come the day after tomorrow does not seem at all out of the way . |
| 6 | She wore a light silk dress and thin shoes , which did not seem at all suitable for a long walk in the snow . |
| 7 | So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key . |
| 8 | In Sicily and southern Italy peasant insurrection in 1860 attached itself to Garibaldi , a splendid blond and red-shirted figure who looked every inch the people 's liberator , and whose belief in a radical-democratic , secular and even vaguely ‘ socialist ’ republic did not seem at all incompatible with their own belief in the saints , the Virgin , the Pope and ( outside Sicily ) the Bourbon king . |
| 9 | The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 12 | They were some way behind the rest of the school , but he did not seem in any hurry to catch them up . |
| 13 | The flow rate and the post-void residual did not seem in this study to distinguish the group of patients who had obstruction . |
| 14 | They did n't seem to injured and could be back for the Leeds match . |
| 15 | Well there is not because that does n't seem to right |
| 16 | She did n't seem at all bothered that Gloria and Dot would have to go trudging off to another hospital somewhere else to find him . |
| 17 | It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little . |
| 18 | Paul came in and did n't seem at all surprised by the theatrics when the curtains opened revealing the four of us . |
| 19 | I made myself a coffee and went to bed , pausing to look in and say goodnight to Nigel on the way , which at the time , and since , did n't seem at all an unusual thing to do . |
| 20 | ‘ But the doctors did n't seem at all surprised , ’ said Caroline , from Thurlby , South Lincolnshire |
| 21 | But she did n't seem at all angry , just amused . |
| 22 | While the Indians appear to understand roughly what we 're doing — they 're happy to do retakes and do n't seem at all put out by this great big eye being pointed at them — they do n't seem to understand about the idea of acting . |
| 23 | It did n't seem at all likely that it could have anything to do with Stavanger , and corpses in the Thames , alas , are not all that infrequent . |
| 24 | Dana was bewitching when she smiled like that and Roman did n't seem at all annoyed by her persistence . |
| 25 | There was a curtness to her tone , but Debbie did n't seem at all perturbed as she grinned at them both . |
| 26 | She was doing well at college , all her work was up to date and she did n't seem at all under pressure . |
| 27 | perhaps it was burnt down and re-built or something did n't seem at all tudorish did it ? |
| 28 | Did n't seem at all then did he ? |
| 29 | It does n't seem at this moment in time that a reprieve is really on the cards . |
| 30 | Marshall do provide , as an optional extra , the MPM 4E footswitch ; this will call up patches 1 to 4 , and although this does n't seem like many sounds , most guitarists would probably find that adequate . |