Example sentences of "not appear [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specification of the problem does not appear to give much scope for divergent thinking or investigation , but if other factors which as servicing of rolling stock , breakdowns and altering the frequency of trains is included , the investigation can become more open . |
| 2 | This would lead to confusion and complication ; ( 2 ) It may imperil certain aspects of the regulatory system , for instance by concluding that Chinese walls are ineffective to prevent the attribution of information , or because advance disclosure that would satisfy fiduciary requirements is impossible , a broker/dealer is always liable when buying or selling as principal ; ( 3 ) It does not appear to give any recognition to the expertise of the bodies to which Parliament has entrusted the regulation of financial services . |
| 3 | However , the Working for patients proposals do not appear to envisage such contracts . |
| 4 | Finally the courts do not appear to exhibit such a protective attitude towards the employee when asked to control his misuse of business secrets . |
| 5 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 6 | The evidence does not appear to confirm this , especially in the case of full-time male workers . |
| 7 | However , it did not appear to hold any particular significance for him because he merely said , ‘ The name is Silas , Lucy . ’ |
| 8 | Highly career-motivated middle-class people fill silences with socially acceptable noises ; people at the base of a hierarchy do not appear to need all this noise . |
| 9 | Their starting point was Handel 's will , drawn up in 1750 , in which he bequeaths to his assistant Christopher Smith ‘ my large harpsichord , my little house organ , my music books , and five hundred pounds ’ Subsequent variations to the will by codicils do not appear to alter any of this . |
| 10 | The expansion of dictionary definitions does not appear to provide any further useful information than that which is available at the first level . |
| 11 | But while the perceived effect of events on future plans may be a critical factor in the development of affective disorder , such general interpretations of events do not appear to offer much scope for intervention . |
| 12 | It may be noted that a set of equations Ax = p , where A is general , may be cast in the above form by premultiplication by AT : unc However , this does not appear to offer any computational advantage . |
| 13 | Again , however , this does not appear to offer any worthwhile computational short-cut . |
| 14 | It does not appear to offer any definite predictions for the future , the road that lies ahead of the crossroads . |
| 15 | The new contracts may improve accounting procedures , but do not appear to offer more choice to either doctors or consumers , who will be bound by contractual arrangements , which the government recommends should be on a three-year rolling basis . |
| 16 | They all then went back to collect the boats and their explosives , having an altercation on the way with a black sentry from Somaliland who did not appear to speak much Italian . |
| 17 | Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 . |
| 18 | Similarly the creation of a charge for a fixed amount in favour of the husband , and the repayment of that charge , would not appear to involve any liability for capital gains tax ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 , s251 provides that there is no charge to capital gains tax on repayment of a debt to a creditor ) or inheritance tax . |
| 19 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 20 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 21 | Thus , small establishments in retailing and in hotels and catering do not appear to make much more use of temporaries than do larger establishments . |
| 22 | The Spotted Orange has made one piece of bogwood its home , but does not appear to make any aggressive moves against any of the other fish . |
| 23 | However , recent evidence does not appear to bear this out . |
| 24 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 25 | They have therefore wondered what it means to say that something ‘ exists ’ , when existence does not appear to attach any particular characteristic to it . |
| 26 | It rarely featured in the financial press , and did not appear to have much of a voice on driving matters — unusual for a company in its position . |
| 27 | Everyone can see that Mr Kinnock is running very hard to win , straining every sinew ; but Mr Major , in comparison , does not appear to have that same , almost feral , competitive edge , that they want . |
| 28 | He did not appear to have any financial or marital problems . ’ |
| 29 | The Asiaticus does not appear to have any aggressive tendencies and appears to be equally active during the day and night . |
| 30 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |