Example sentences of "there did [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership . |
| 2 | She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry . |
| 3 | There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones . |
| 4 | ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up . |
| 5 | While there did not seem to be an overall shortage of teachers , their distribution was very uneven between regions , and their qualifications varied widely . |
| 6 | Strangely , there did not seem to be much on-going practical application in the early days . |
| 7 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There did not seem much point in working at my research , because I did n't expect to live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 12 | There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 15 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There did n't seem to be anything to do but to close the door , which I did . |
| 18 | There did n't seem to be any good-time girls left except , maybe , Eleanor . |
| 19 | That was all , there did n't seem to be much to sing for . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 21 | She did n't want to fight with her mother all the time , but there did n't seem to be any alternative . |
| 22 | There did n't seem much point in asking about himself . |
| 23 | There did n't seem to be anything else to do . |
| 24 | But there did n't seem to be any more around after the war was over . |
| 25 | There did n't seem to be one . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There did n't seem much point in continuing . |
| 28 | There did n't seem to be any winter in Florida , and the banks were thick with greenery . |
| 29 | There did n't seem to be anything useful at ground level . |
| 30 | There did n't seem to be any doors or windows anywhere . |