Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] no [det] " in BNC.

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1 When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions .
2 However , chimpanzees raised in the wild seemed to have no such difficulties , presumably because they had had plenty of opportunity to observe copulation in other chimpanzees and so had learnt how to perform it themselves .
3 Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone .
4 And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’
5 The unexpected development seemed to make no more sense than the feather and the note ; or , for that matter , the glass ball .
6 The laws of cause and effect , which appear to operate so consistently in the physical world , seem to have no such application in the world of metaphysics .
7 Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what .
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