Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief superintendent was a man in his forties , with thinning hair and pale blue eyes that did n't seem to blink . |
| 2 | Ruth heard it in her sleep at first , a far-off murmur that did n't seem to mean much . |
| 3 | In conclusion , Irish patients with colorectal carcinoma exhibit a noticeable hypocholesterolaemia that does not seem to be the result of a compromised nutritional state . |
| 4 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 5 | Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself . |
| 6 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 7 | Even during its first few years , however , the Nordic Council began to achieve a considerable degree of coordination in the legislation of the three states , though these related to practical matters that did not seem to threaten national independence . |
| 8 | ‘ The immediate future holds several hours of waitressing for me , ’ she said with a brittle brightness that did n't seem to fool him . |
| 9 | But its nakedness does make it appear extremely ugly to many cat enthusiasts and does not seem to compensate for its oddity-value . |
| 10 | He was laughing with a group of female technicians and did not seem to be aware that anything unusual had happened . |
| 11 | The other customers retained their normal appearances and did n't seem to notice anything odd about Mr and Mrs Smith , who were still boars as I backed out of the shop carrying the bags of groceries . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister is clearly now on the ropes and does n't seem able to fight back . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite the reliable reporting of symptoms and conserved sensitivity to acid , reflux symptoms reflected poorly the prolonged oesophageal acid exposure and do not seem to be a reliable guide to the severity of oesophageal involvement in PSS . |
| 15 | They were concious of their decision and did n't seem to put them in a great dilemna |
| 16 | The family lived in one of the Barratt houses and did not seem to Helen unduly prosperous , but clearly one was losing one 's eye for these things . |
| 17 | Vila are another team that do n't seem to have clicked . |
| 18 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 19 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 20 | To my knowledge , Hallidayan linguists have always concentrated on marked theme and do not seem to have considered that a rheme can also be marked . |
| 21 | she was nice so , she would admire his fine colours and did not seem much herself , so , she wanted |
| 22 | The Pacific , though , had already waited three years and did n't seem in any particular hurry this year either . |
| 23 | The story is much the same in all four cities : social conservatives trying to push their ideas through school boards , parents frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't seem to teach children to figure , write or read . |
| 24 | The Wang Garden was the only restaurant in that part of the country , unless you counted the Paragon Café , which served pizza and eggs and did n't seem to know the meaning of its name . |
| 25 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 26 | But , with brilliant timing , Boss Man shuddered and with an almighty roar he was up — and Berzerker was down , felled by a punch that did not seem to make contact . |
| 27 | General relativity , on the other hand , was largely ignored because it seemed too complicated mathematically , was not testable in the laboratory , and was a purely classical theory that did not seem compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 28 | It might even be possible to scare him into silence , although when he was brought to Owen 's office in the early hours of the morning that did not seem very likely . |
| 29 | All this training for a game that does not seem to be exactly demanding in a physical sense ! |
| 30 | There are certain features associated with censorship that do not seem to change through the years . |