Example sentences of "there [verb] not seem to " in BNC.

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1 There do n't seem to be enough hours in the day to do all the things you have to do , quite apart from your laundry !
2 Unfortunately , there do n't seem to be many around in the universe .
3 The funny thing is there do n't seem to be any old folks .
4 Er there do n't seem to be quite a lot of that any more .
5 but there do n't seem to be any around
6 One problem is that there do not seem to be many potentially blue-chip names in the pipeline , ready to join what is now a severely restricted group .
7 In the case of buildings and equipment there do not seem to be any special problems other than space and cost .
8 There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership .
9 She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry .
10 There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones .
11 ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up .
12 While there did not seem to be an overall shortage of teachers , their distribution was very uneven between regions , and their qualifications varied widely .
13 Strangely , there did not seem to be much on-going practical application in the early days .
14 In the lesson there did not seem to be any movement towards better understanding through exploring examples , as intended , or even towards using the guesses to encourage the type of investigative interactions the designer had envisaged .
15 And then , because there did not seem to be any reason to wait , they moved cautiously to the door at the far end of the wood-store and inched it open .
16 Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient .
17 There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up .
18 There did not seem to be a satisfactory answer to that and indeed to prolonging this very bitter rollicking that he was bent on awarding me .
19 She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van .
20 There did n't seem to be anything to do but to close the door , which I did .
21 There did n't seem to be any good-time girls left except , maybe , Eleanor .
22 That was all , there did n't seem to be much to sing for .
23 Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight .
24 She did n't want to fight with her mother all the time , but there did n't seem to be any alternative .
25 There did n't seem to be anything else to do .
26 But there did n't seem to be any more around after the war was over .
27 There did n't seem to be one .
28 He says that Murray Johnstone looked at the idea but concluded that : ‘ There did n't seem to be much sense in launching a common investment fund .
29 There did n't seem to be any winter in Florida , and the banks were thick with greenery .
30 There did n't seem to be anything useful at ground level .
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