Example sentences of "did [not/n't] seem so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 2 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 3 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 4 | One would think that monastic orderliness would be ingrained in one as deep as heart 's blood , by thirty-five , but it did not seem so , with me . |
| 5 | It seems once the ice was broken and egos calmed , getting down to the eight key tasks with help from outsiders did not seem so bad after all . |
| 6 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 7 | The dangers all around me did not seem so frightening . |
| 8 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 9 | It did n't seem so to me , at least not at the beginning : just another frustrating case of the consumer uncatered-for . |
| 10 | With her here , so close after such an absence , the idea of marriage did n't seem so preposterous . |
| 11 | ‘ I can remember when that did n't seem so unlikely , and I thought , well , if anything like that does ever happen , and they 're right and the establishment is wrong , then it would n't do any harm for there to be people like me in the Army who were basically in sympathy with the … movement , whatever . ’ |
| 12 | It did n't seem so at first . |
| 13 | Suddenly , Richie Quick did n't seem so real . |
| 14 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 15 | Even the thought of sharing a bed with him did n't seem so threatening when he was being kind . |
| 16 | Well , I think the answer to that is it did n't seem so farfetched . |
| 17 | Her rats-tail hair did n't seem so bad suddenly and in the firelight she was quite pretty . |
| 18 | Up here , on the top of the pass , Gesner and the theatre did n't seem so important — not important at all when one thought of losing one 's farm and parents in a war . |
| 19 | But then the little bedroom was n't so did n't seem so damp . |
| 20 | It seemed quiet in school today , did n't seem so many children , is there ? |