Example sentences of "do not seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Guild 's now you see erm do n't seem to be they 're not , not at all as active , its , its quite honest . |
| 2 | The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation . |
| 3 | She did not seem at a loss , only waiting for some boring and pointless noise to end . |
| 4 | She wore a light silk dress and thin shoes , which did not seem at all suitable for a long walk in the snow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Sicily and southern Italy peasant insurrection in 1860 attached itself to Garibaldi , a splendid blond and red-shirted figure who looked every inch the people 's liberator , and whose belief in a radical-democratic , secular and even vaguely ‘ socialist ’ republic did not seem at all incompatible with their own belief in the saints , the Virgin , the Pope and ( outside Sicily ) the Bourbon king . |
| 7 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 8 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 9 | There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership . |
| 10 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 11 | She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry . |
| 12 | WHEN it was published in a journal called Cell in April 1986 , ‘ Altered Repertoire of Endogenous Immunoglobulin Gene Expression in Transgenic Mice Containing a Rearranged Mu Heavy Chain Gene ’ did not seem to be the stuff of history . |
| 13 | There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones . |
| 14 | ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 17 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 18 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 19 | People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words . |
| 20 | Viewers did not seem to be repelled by the complexities of procedures — in fact many were intrigued — but there had been reaction to the sight of empty benches . |
| 21 | Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child . |
| 22 | While there did not seem to be an overall shortage of teachers , their distribution was very uneven between regions , and their qualifications varied widely . |
| 23 | For all that , it did not seem to Karelius that things had gone too badly . |
| 24 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it did not seem to him right that a specifically Indian movement should be known by an English name . |
| 26 | Strangely , there did not seem to be much on-going practical application in the early days . |
| 27 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 28 | Back in the early 1970s there were suggestions that some Auckland players were taking rather unusual medical treatment , although steroids did not seem to be involved then . |
| 29 | It really did not seem to be a problem . ’ |
| 30 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |