Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 2 | How her borrowings became so vast is a bit of a mystery , but she does not seem to have ploughed the straightest furrow in Osaka . |
| 3 | But she did not seem to want to see it . ’ |
| 4 | Later , at what he called a ‘ Braemar gathering ’ , he asked Ivy , but she did not seem to have anything particular in mind . |
| 5 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 6 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 7 | ‘ We certainly become more knowing , but we do not seem to become any more civilised , ’ he said in a celebration for the 300th anniversary of the college , one of the most prestigious in the US . |
| 8 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 9 | It is difficult to assess the impact this has had , but there does not seem to have been a massive desertion of schools with poor examination results . |
| 10 | ‘ I was brought up to respect the police but there does not seem to be the respect any more . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a shame that we are being penalised for something which has been done by the football club , but there does not seem to be anything we can do about it . |
| 12 | But there does not seem to be any useful way of developing this idea by seeing people as containing equal quantities of any special substance , or equal degrees of any property . |
| 13 | But there does not seem any necessity for other galaxies to exist , let alone the million million or so of them that we see distributed roughly uniformly throughout the observable universe . |
| 14 | Example 91 , from Britten 's War Requiem , has a tenor recitative over a sustained chord of G minor ( first inversion ) : The tenor part is frequently in strong , discordant opposition to the accompaniment , but there does not seem to be any planned tonal scheme . |
| 15 | But there does not seem to be any need for all those other galaxies , nor for the universe to be so uniform and similar in every direction on the large scale . |
| 16 | These are powerful and important arguments , but they do not seem to translate into visible results . |
| 17 | Attempts at ‘ objectivity ’ — a major premise of the sociological method — may reduce many obvious biases , but they do not seem to have affected the deeply ingrained bias of sexism . |
| 18 | Sometimes several chimpanzees may take part in the hunt , but they do not seem to collaborate to any greater extent than lions or wolves . |
| 19 | The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes . |
| 20 | It should be added that there are a number of philosophical problems with Grice 's theory ( see e.g. Schiffer , 1972 ) , but they do not seem to vitiate the value of the central idea . |
| 21 | The side is full of skilful individuals but they do not seem to be able to function as a side . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 23 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
| 24 | But he does not seem to have noticed that Sulla and his friend Pompey were heading for self-deification : death spared him the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar , Posidonius found mystical postures and bogus oracles among the supporters of the slave-king Eunus and of the barbarous Mithridates . |
| 25 | But he does not seem to have tried to give a description of the Roman system of m unicipia and coloniae , Latin allies and other confederates . |
| 26 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
| 27 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 28 | But he did not seem to be in any hurry . |
| 29 | Jotan 's tunic was hanging in tatters , but he did not seem to be badly injured . |
| 30 | They were some way behind the rest of the school , but he did not seem in any hurry to catch them up . |