Example sentences of "not seem so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 2 | With hindsight , it may not seem so . |
| 3 | This programme does not seem so radical in terms of social philosophies to warrant Lévi-Strauss 's optimism for its effects . |
| 4 | Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed . |
| 5 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 6 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 7 | One would think that monastic orderliness would be ingrained in one as deep as heart 's blood , by thirty-five , but it did not seem so , with me . |
| 8 | It seems once the ice was broken and egos calmed , getting down to the eight key tasks with help from outsiders did not seem so bad after all . |
| 9 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 10 | The dangers all around me did not seem so frightening . |
| 11 | ‘ It may not seem so now , but I promise you a miscarriage is one of nature 's mercies . ’ |
| 12 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 13 | It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome . |