Example sentences of "not seem [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not seem to concern anyone . |
| 2 | The cold fusion with muons , ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ , can occur and has been seen to happen ; however , it does not seem to happen fast enough to be useful as an energy source . |
| 3 | Mrs Singh mentioned this once or twice but did not seem to set much store by it . |
| 4 | The truth is , she does not seem to wish to see me and will think of every excuse to keep me out of her presence . |
| 5 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 6 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 7 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 8 | Donald , who was still nodding his head , did not seem to notice any of this . |
| 9 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 10 | She was lost in thought , and did not seem to notice that everyone was looking at her . |
| 11 | There was one farmer , however , who did not seem to notice her , and this annoyed her a little . |
| 12 | ‘ The question is , shall we splurge on the coffee and scrimp on the tea , or vice versa , ’ he was saying , in that thin , scratchy voice of his that his wife did not seem to notice . |
| 13 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 14 | But sadly , as ‘ middle-of-the-road ’ politicians have found , no matter what the outrage , peace as an issue does not seem to spark enthusiasm . |
| 15 | The aggravation did not seem to upset Jansher yesterday as he conceded only a single point to Frank Ellis as the title holders , Pakistan , started the world team championships here yesterday with a 3-0 win over Scotland . |
| 16 | Their characters do not seem to lead full , emotional lives . |
| 17 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |
| 18 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 19 | You do not seem to appreciate that the point at which Soul is stretched the furthest , globally , is the point at which it is weakest . |
| 20 | But Jazz did not seem to appreciate the beautiful simplicity of his achievement , and struck out at Nails under the water . |
| 21 | Within five minutes , Meredith was not only as hot , bothered and bad-tempered as the rest , she was angry too at people who did not seem to appreciate what they had . |
| 22 | Producing a good report , especially on a very technical paper , can take many hours , and editors do not seem to appreciate how rewarding referees would find the knowledge that their comments were taken note of and that the other referees agreed with them . |
| 23 | The UDC does not seem to appreciate that most of the derelict land in the area is in private hands and the underdevelopment is not the councils fault , but is actually due to the failure of government enterprise policies to encourage private investors . |
| 24 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 25 | They did not seem to realise how fragile the ceremony was . |
| 26 | They did not seem to realise how important they were ; not self-important , but important to the incantation , the altar , the ritual . |
| 27 | Kollerstrom does not seem to realise that the debate has now reached this stage . |
| 28 | In the 1940s wives were still bitterly resentful of the fact that their husbands did not seem to realise that they needed leisure . |
| 29 | The hon. Lady did not seem to realise that the diversification policy of those industries can not be cross-financed from the core businesses — I wish that the hon. Lady would listen , because she might learn something and avoid mistakes in future . |
| 30 | The Government do not seem to realise how severely consumers have been affected by the experience of recession . |