Example sentences of "[not/n't] seem [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never known anything about that occasion ; her mother had never mentioned it — and had certainly not seemed to suffer any ill-effects herself . |
| 2 | Mrs Singh mentioned this once or twice but did not seem to set much store by it . |
| 3 | Donald , who was still nodding his head , did not seem to notice any of this . |
| 4 | Second , the classification does not seem to obey any single , logical principle . |
| 5 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 6 | However , it is too difficult to think up a complete theory of everything all at one go ( though this does not seem to stop some people ; I get two or three unified theories in the mail each week ) . |
| 7 | ( Some people think that this might be dangerous for inexperienced students , but it does not seem to cause any particular problems in Australia . ) |
| 8 | Fortunately increased gastrin production does not seem to cause any untoward effects on people . |
| 9 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ . |
| 10 | Inquisitive fish , like Tiger Barbs , may nibble at the snails ' tentacles , but do not seem to cause any damage . |
| 11 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Controlling for the intervening variables of age and sex did not seem to affect these findings . |
| 14 | The Hopi did not seem to need any sense of time as a dimension . |
| 15 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 16 | Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour market . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was suggested that the DG method failed to represent the thematic organisation of the concordances analysed , as the categories that might have been chosen on an ’ intuitive ’ basis do not seem to attract any of the 500 most frequently appearing words of a test item . |
| 19 | I would be very grateful if you could give me any information on the tank and feeding requirements of these fish , plus where I could obtain some more literature on them as I can not seem to find any at all . |
| 20 | As will be seen below in the section on search repetition results , the objective difference between the two systems was not great , and it is not at all surprising that users did not seem to find any difference . |
| 21 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |
| 22 | Three years after the Act was passed , the hon. Lady still does not seem to understand that local management of schools funds the pupils and not the teachers . |
| 23 | More experienced people do not seem to understand more of BSL . |
| 24 | Aunt Louise did not seem to understand this . |
| 25 | Mr Farraday did not seem to understand this statement , for he merely went on : ‘ I mean it , Stevens . |
| 26 | They did not seem to follow any particular pattern , but occurred at random and with varying intensity . |
| 27 | ‘ We certainly become more knowing , but we do not seem to become any more civilised , ’ he said in a celebration for the 300th anniversary of the college , one of the most prestigious in the US . |
| 28 | One did not seem to meet many of them now . |
| 29 | Again there are too few patients who fall into the category of significant changs in body weight to permit valid conclusions but given the limited information , this did not seem to influence these results . |
| 30 | Postverbal adjectives do not seem to raise any very difficult problems or any fundamentally new issues . |