Example sentences of "[not/n't] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not seem possible to explain away the legal rights and duties of a body as being merely the rights and duties of the individuals composing it ; and |
| 2 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 3 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 4 | It did not seem possible . |
| 5 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 6 | On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . |
| 7 | ‘ Three months ago it did not seem possible that we could take the Championship again but we never gave up . |
| 8 | It may , therefore , be more productive to work within the limitations imposed by the data than to continue to explore art-styles as a root to chronological precision when this does not seem possible because of the unknown number of unknown variables . |
| 9 | In this and the following story , religious belief played a significant part in what does , or does not seem possible for the client to accept . |
| 10 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 11 | I managed to get to the wine bar the other side of St Paul 's in time to pick up Rebecca and the bar staff did not seem sad to see her go . |
| 12 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 13 | Teachers can play an important role in helping them to adjust , but since practical and financial arrangements often cause difficulties for parents , teachers need to be sensitive in offering help so that it does not seem intrusive . |
| 14 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 15 | In view of their small size , however , it does not seem appropriate to say anything more about them . |
| 16 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 17 | But such agencies do not seem appropriate precursors of a discussion of the elaboration of lozenge designs , of the trend to scenic or elaborate figural work , or the centralisation of arrangements . |
| 18 | In many of the cases brought against experts , where full arbitral status did not seem appropriate , the expert 's immunity was said to derive from the fact that the expert 's status was that of a " quasi-arbitrator " , or that the expert was " in the position of an arbitrator " , or that an expert was " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 19 | However this hold upon her does not seem strong , as later on in the same scene she launches into song , cleverly making the first three lines rhyme with lead ! |
| 20 | Now he did and they did not seem absurd , they seemed like good reasons . |
| 21 | Hence there is a painful dilemma for the policy-maker between treating a problem as a black box which will not go away but whose size does not seem intimidating and is amenable to exorcism by benign rhetoric and minor policy adjustments ; or as a more diffuse , analytically complex and sophisticated explanation of why most of the problems exist . |
| 22 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it does not seem ridiculous to consider parallels between the developing embryo/foetus and the evolution of our species . |
| 24 | To Western eyes , this may not seem extraordinary . |
| 25 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 26 | This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky . |
| 27 | Although she swung round quickly , he noticed that she did not seem all that startled . |
| 28 | These two are the best guides to the little constellation of Scutum , with its famous open cluster M11 ; indeed , Scutum used to be included in Aquila , and there does not seem much justification for giving it a separate identity . |
| 29 | She did not seem much interested in the bomb . |
| 30 | ‘ It might not seem much of a dream to anyone else , ’ she says , ‘ but to us this one simple thing really does mean everything . ’ |