Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both . |
| 2 | This highly developed system of teaching did not seem to be working well . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the balance of the domestic division of labour does not seem to be related to the work done by men . |
| 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 | With her here , so close after such an absence , the idea of marriage did n't seem so preposterous . |
| 6 | On the face of it , this plan of campaign did not seem very innovative . |
| 7 | The rule of law does not seem to work in settling people 's grievances . |
| 8 | The suggested analogies relied on with ecclesiastical courts and military courts which apply wholly distinct areas of law do not seem to me to be helpful or valid . |
| 9 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 10 | The lack of an epistemological foundation for the sociology of knowledge did not seem to all philosophers to signal its failure . |
| 11 | This type of signalling does not seem to support the attenuation theory . |
| 12 | And he added : ‘ For those pressure groups , the tenets of logic do not seem important . ’ |
| 13 | Rather curiously , this line of thought does not seem to occur at all in biological materials which all depend , as do some artificial ones , on reducing the effective stress concentration at the tip of the crack . |
| 14 | This is that we should , as scientists , be even a little worried if the origin of life did not seem miraculous to our own human consciousness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , this sort of explanation does not seem to hold up in the face of evidence that football hooliganism is by no means a uniquely modern , post-1960 occurrence . |
| 17 | What seems inescapable , since a change of context does not seem to restore α , is the conclusion that a change in the level of α is not the sole determinant of the retardation of subsequent learning produced by prior experience of the stimulus . |
| 18 | Her sense of time did n't seem to be like everybody 's else 's . |
| 19 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 20 | ‘ What I have in mind did n't seem to affect you that way last night , ’ he remarked . |
| 21 | Attempting to prevent young people from drinking does not seem to work . |
| 22 | Full data on the Barbara 's performance in service do not seem to be available any longer . |
| 23 | This is because ‘ women in red do not seem approachable . ’ |
| 24 | The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down . |
| 25 | He was still without a sweater over his lemon T-shirt , but the drop in temperature did n't seem to be bothering him . |
| 26 | Its safety in pregnancy does not seem yet to have been established . |
| 27 | The biggest flaw in Mr Chandler 's argument is that it applies more readily to industries where fast changes in technology do not seem likely . |
| 28 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 29 | Resort to logic does not seem to help in ascertaining the distinction . |
| 30 | People who are used to stock market investment do not seem concerned about risk and those who are worried over risk do not seem keen to put funds in the market . |