Example sentences of "it do not seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem as if there were bones broken , despite the height of the fall . |
| 2 | To begin with , it did not seem as if anything was going to happen . |
| 3 | So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key . |
| 4 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 5 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 6 | For all that , it did not seem to Karelius that things had gone too badly . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it did not seem to him right that a specifically Indian movement should be known by an English name . |
| 8 | De Benedetti explained his prevarication yesterday , saying : ‘ It did not seem to be the appropriate moment to clarify the position of the company on arguments that must first , by their nature , be illuminated and discussed in front of judicial authorities . ’ |
| 9 | Without taking those concerns seriously — and it did not seem to — the West stood little chance of persuading ( or even bullying ) them rapidly to give their nuclear weapons up . |
| 10 | It did not seem to be the man or his capacities that changed in these cases , so much as the needs and expectations of his followers , organizations , and markets . |
| 11 | It did not seem to her always so light-hearted . |
| 12 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 13 | It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems . |
| 14 | It did not seem to people that , to use de Gaulle 's expression , " the train was back on the tracks " . |
| 15 | Sitting up , knees hunched against her breasts , it does not seem worth dressing now . |
| 16 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 17 | It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum . |
| 18 | ‘ It does not seem to be a hive of industry , ’ Morton said . |
| 19 | What it does not seem to me to offer , and what seems crucial for the intensely generic regime which television operates , is the beginning of a theory of genre specific to television which addresses not only the systems , but the forms of subjectivity which these systems imply . |
| 20 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |
| 21 | If substantial structural change is taking place , then , it does not seem to be following the lines which would be suggested by public choice theory . |
| 22 | It does not seem to be widely realised that words have shape and colour and rhythm as well as meaning . |
| 23 | Frogs and toads occasionally employ this device , but it does not seem to be very widespread among these amphibians . |
| 24 | Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause . |
| 25 | ‘ it does not seem to be far from the truth that the freedom with which a person can walk about and look around is a very useful guide to the civilized quality of an urban area . |
| 26 | It does not seem to us to be particularly fruitful to discuss highly generalised theories of whether international law is or could be ‘ law ’ as such : if viewed from the perspective of ‘ effectiveness ’ , international law may have to be judged differently , depending on whether , for example , the focus is on regional economic relations regulated by treaties , or on customary law applicable to the laws of war on a universal scale . |
| 27 | But even if it is just , it does not seem to be comprehensive . |
| 28 | It is introduced as a hypothesis which can bring coherence and understanding into this area — a piece of speculation which has continued to worry empiricists ever since it was first developed since it does not seem to be based on facts . |
| 29 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 30 | It is unlikely , but it does not seem to be ‘ wrong ’ in quite the same way as the sentences in Task 3 . |