Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] appear [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
| 2 | In Spain , in the later 1780s , the foreign minister , Count Floridablanca , began attaching youths in their late teens to missions abroad to be given there some grounding in diplomatic skills : this again does not appear to have gone very far . |
| 3 | As time passed he compared notes , revised his dosages and kept an eye on the testing programme , but the thought that it was wrong does not appear to have troubled him for long . |
| 4 | They do not cover the Mediterranean , where England does not appear to have played a substantial part in trade until at least after the accession of the Tudors . |
| 5 | Although there have been some notable examples of this practice ( such as Saatchi and Saatchi , and Ward White in 1984 ) it does not appear to have become commonplace . |
| 6 | It does not appear to have affected drinking water supplies , however . |
| 7 | Equally , changes in the proportion of people married in particular age categories does not appear to have contributed to any significant decline in population increases . |
| 8 | Even the United Nations Security Council , which has given thought and time to the plight of those troubled people , the Kurds , does not appear to have given any thought or time to the plight of the people in the south of Iraq , the Shia . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , fascism does not appear to have gained a strong or permanent foothold within most Conservative constituency parties . |
| 10 | And although it may be bad for a girl of that age to have sex , I can honestly say that it does not appear to have caused me any lasting harm , either emotionally or physically . |
| 11 | Thus , while rule 80a does not appear to have caused serious damage to the spot and futures markets , it does not seem to have fulfilled its objective of promoting market stabilization . |
| 12 | The situation does not appear to have altered dramatically since then . |
| 13 | But these companies have always taken out a separate source licence with Unix System Labs , something that BSDI does not appear to have done . |
| 14 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |
| 15 | He also showed his face at some of the later Congresses , but he does not appear to have made any active contribution to any of them . |
| 16 | The court in Philippou does not appear to have known of the dictum in McHugh . |
| 17 | Although his brother , the Rev. Arthur Oakeley ( then squire of Lydham ) does not appear to have approved of the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway and did not attend the Opening , Commander Henry Oakeley , R.N. ( Retd. ) was very interested . |
| 18 | A low-key approach towards Iran , linked in to the fate of the Lebanon hostages , now of course all free , does not appear to have paid off ; and the Government patience does seem to be fraying slightly , to Rushdie 's intense relief . |
| 19 | The inequality of wealth and income was still gross , although the rise of unemployment does not appear to have worsened the position of the working classes . |
| 20 | But , strikingly , Hitler 's personal preoccupation with ‘ the struggle against the Jews ’ does not appear to have figured as a leading component of his image for the bulk of the population . |
| 21 | Not everyone , however , liked Mrs Stowe : Thackeray began , but does not appear to have finished , a spoof , now in the New York Public Library , which begins : ‘ An army of 500 thousand ladies with tasteful banners on which poor Gumbo is displayed kneeling in his chains … ’ . |
| 22 | Management does not appear to have encouraged it actively . |
| 23 | ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’ |
| 24 | In its verdict , the court found that ‘ the content of Suh Kyung-won 's conversation with the North Korean leader Kim Il-sung does not appear to have contained what could be called top secrets vital to national security . ’ |
| 25 | The recession of more recent years does not appear to have induced a reversion back towards multi-employer bargaining . |
| 26 | Thomas Thurland held 1½ but Daniel Höchstetter does not appear to have held a portion . |
| 27 | Bruguiere does not appear to have included B. lapillus L. in Purpura but Lamarck ( 1822 ) did when he expanded the genus to comprise some 50 species , establishing B. persicum L. as the type for the genus ( Winkworth , 1945 ) . |
| 28 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 29 | Though the overall level of representation does not appear to have improved dramatically , it seems that the numbers represented by specialist lay advisers have increased so that now the most common representative is the trades union representative or the specialist lay adviser . |
| 30 | The court does not appear to have dealt directly with this argument . |