Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | If demographic facts on numbers of old people , school-age children , etc. , are taken into account , the resources devoted to services such as health or education do not seem to have increased immoderately . |
| 2 | Don Mathew , who compiled the survey , said : ‘ Councils in Middlesbrough , Newcastle and Gateshead do n't seem to care about cyclists whereas York really tries . |
| 3 | But I 'm old and secrets do n't seem so important any more . ’ |
| 4 | Speakers and listeners do not seem to be necessary . |
| 5 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 6 | One can speculate why , with so much in common , Greeks and Jews do not seem to have spoken to each other . |
| 7 | Architects , councillors and contractors do n't seem to think that the working class need or want warm bedrooms . |
| 8 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 9 | At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Anger and impulse do n't seem to be a part of his make-up : when he parodies the swaggering Hotspur , we can already see the fastidious distaste for self-dramatisation that will make him disown Falstaff , just as , when he imitates his father , we can see the strength this quiet man derives from the stately deliberation of majesty . |
| 12 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 13 | Although the old grammatical drills and exercises do not seem to have raised standards of composition , it appears that new ways of teaching language can be of help . |
| 14 | She confesses to thinking more now about her social life , and marriage and children do n't seem quite so remote from her dreams but her temporal desires remain on the backburner still , sacrificed for a higher purpose : the music and anyone who attempts to dig for a Máire , a Sinéad , or a Mary Couglan should be arrested for indecency . |
| 15 | I have tried local shops and freezer centres without success ; restaurants and cafes do n't seem to have heard of it , even though it is available in several countries abroad . |
| 16 | I 've even had some negotiate over their job title , and once they 've got that , conditions and pay do n't seem to matter . |
| 17 | Thus wiping and licking do not seem to require a change of state as a matter of their essential meaning , but it is quite accepted that one may be involved , so that we can have : ( 34 ) Rover licked his plate clean Wendy wiped the floor dry |
| 18 | Some of the magnates were motivated by personal or local considerations : the northern lords , Wake , Neville and Percy , were concerned at the neglect of the defence of the northern border as Edward 's continental campaigns swallowed up all the available resources ; but Arundel , Warenne and Huntingdon do not seem to have had personal grievances against the king , and their role in the crisis still awaits a satisfactory explanation . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's a lot o' difference in their ages , an' Fred do n't seem the sort o' bloke who 'd be a cheerful soul ter be wiv . |
| 20 | But customers do not seem to care . |
| 21 | Outside the meeting can I just say I 'm getting some of the new screening sheets through , you know first , but people do n't seem to know what they 're supposed to do with them and their in exactly the same position that they were before . |
| 22 | The water is dirty with unsightly debris along the banks but swans do not seem to be deterred and ropes hanging from the freight railway bridge downstream show that local children swim in the river . |