Example sentences of "[not/n't] seem [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The blades , which turn at 30 rpm , do not seem to harm aquatic life . |
| 4 | Refractory pouchitis therefore does not seem to reflect underlying Crohn 's disease , but may be linked to immunological mechanisms that are manifested clinically as extraintestinal complications . |
| 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 | Inquisitive fish , like Tiger Barbs , may nibble at the snails ' tentacles , but do not seem to cause any damage . |
| 8 | H pylori infection did not seem to affect secretory volumes ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | Controlling for the intervening variables of age and sex did not seem to affect these findings . |
| 10 | The Hopi did not seem to need any sense of time as a dimension . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Farraday did not seem to understand this statement , for he merely went on : ‘ I mean it , Stevens . |
| 16 | Piggy did not seem to understand human nature and naively told Ralph about his nickname and expected Ralph not to tell anyone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Advertising does not seem to influence total consumption or levels of abuse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although the results were abnormal for 55 ( 48% ) of the ‘ medical ’ patients , they did not seem to influence clinical management . |
| 21 | If the expert is seen to be incompetent ( eg. if an accountant does not seem to provide sensible information ) or if his area of expertise is not widely acknowledged ( which is often the case with personnel department staff ) he will have little or no expert power . |
| 22 | That it is now compulsory to do so does not seem to increase that duty and , correspondingly , the plaintiff 's share in the responsibility for the damage he suffers . |
| 23 | But this does not seem to make much difference to the behaviour . ) |
| 24 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 25 | Obviously it is quite easy to split a subject into relatively free-standing elements , but in real life one has to use knowledge from various ‘ packages ’ to solve problems and some undergraduates do not seem to develop this ability on the modular courses . |
| 26 | However , as time goes by and the problem of unemployment does not seem to diminish more thought is being given to the specific problems of those applying for work while out of a job . |
| 27 | But to revert to normal and to prefer one 's relations to the garden would not seem to require obvious explanation . |
| 28 | Despite the phraseology , the Messina declaration did not seem to have much impact at the time ; it was not seen as a dramatic move towards supranationalism . |
| 29 | They did not seem to have any idea of what a sandwich course was about ; they seemed to pretend that their students were all mature men with industrial experience . |
| 30 | At the hospital Guy 's reflexes were all right , and he did not seem to have any brain damage , so the doctors told his father that he just had concussion . |