Example sentences of "[adv] seem [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the guarantee is addressed to KPMG rather than to the client , a guarantee would not seem to fall within this category and , therefore , simplifies matters . |
| 2 | Nitric oxide does not seem to conform to this pattern of behaviour and indeed challenges classical concepts of neurotransmission . |
| 3 | Sometimes several chimpanzees may take part in the hunt , but they do not seem to collaborate to any greater extent than lions or wolves . |
| 4 | These are powerful and important arguments , but they do not seem to translate into visible results . |
| 5 | The variability of the shifted features does not seem to correlate with that of the main features . |
| 6 | Ascarids , or large roundworms , are very common in young horses , but do not seem to appear in those over five years old . |
| 7 | This does not seem to correspond to any community published elsewhere , but of course the environment is rather marginal for woodland growth at this locality . |
| 8 | And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings . |
| 9 | His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all . |
| 10 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The one thing that does not seem to work in these situations is to use a large pop-up fished over the bed of baits . |
| 13 | Intriguingly , these rules do not seem to apply to defined-contribution pensions bought by individuals directly from insurance companies . |
| 14 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 15 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 16 | Within the field of Latin American art as a whole there are still many individual artists who have not received the attention they deserve because their work does not seem to fit into any larger pattern . |
| 17 | We do not know what sort of a variable it is ; it does not seem to fit into any category . |
| 18 | Merchant 's companies do not seem to distinguish between key result areas and critical success factors . |
| 19 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 20 | Rather curiously , this line of thought does not seem to occur at all in biological materials which all depend , as do some artificial ones , on reducing the effective stress concentration at the tip of the crack . |
| 21 | and are , are employing and paying people to work them but they do n't ever seem to come to any let's say reportable conclusion about the cost of operations . |
| 22 | Well I 'm not sure really it did n't seem to go to good on the cast iron nails you know the long ones |
| 23 | She kept to herself and did n't seem to act in any suspicious manner . |
| 24 | he does n't seem to put on any weight mind |
| 25 | Did n't seem to hang like that though is it ? |
| 26 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 27 | I do n't know , it do n't seem to react to that , that 's a bit , mind you there again there 's only going to be that there is n't it ? |
| 28 | There are split ends on the split ends and worst of all , it does n't seem to grow in some places any more . |
| 29 | People do n't seem to look at other people , whereas in the towns and villages in the north that I have known the locals will bid you good day or smile as you go in and out of shops or even just crossing the street . |
| 30 | ‘ It did n't seem to look like that when I had the fitting . ’ |