Example sentences of "they do not appear [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance . |
| 2 | When I first met the car manufacturers , they did not appear to be taking the matter very seriously at all , but my last meeting with them revealed that they are now much more prepared to make their cars more secure . |
| 3 | He wanted to eliminate people within and without the party and by killing Kirov , another major figure in the party he could eliminate those in the party whom he disliked , legitimately enough , so that they did not appear to be murdered but victims of the purges . |
| 4 | This came across in the interview because although the managers were under a lot of pressure they did not appear to be panicked or stressed by it . |
| 5 | If you compare a striped object with one that has a different kind of black and white pattern , they do not appear to be the same size even if , in reality , they are identical . |
| 6 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 7 | But while such differences are common , they do not appear to be universal . |
| 8 | The same technique can be used to identify those descriptions which were never matched by comments in the potential risks condition , these might be regarded as peripheral details in the stimuli in the sense that they do not appear to be related to risks . |