Example sentences of "they do not appear " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not appear even to breathe . |
| 2 | The man and woman met by arrangement at Waterloo Station , although they did not appear to . |
| 3 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
| 4 | Although children often seemed to understand and produce the unmarked adjective forms more readily than the marked ones , they did not appear to treat small , for instance , at any stage as if its meaning was identical to that of big ( see Bartlett , 1978 ; Clark , 1972 ; Eilers , Oller and Ellington , 1974 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 10 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Polite , friendly , neither intense nor passionate in their responses , they do not appear to have strong opinions either about chess or about their own future . |
| 13 | The ability to seek out travel services for the customer even when they do not appear on brochure racks has brought the company a strong following in the town but also , according to manager Sandra Chisholm , from as far as Glasgow . |
| 14 | Although they are probably sexually transmitted , they do not appear to produce much in the way of symptoms in either men or women . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such opportunities are obviously present in Kenya and Zambia though they do not appear always to work out in practice , one reason in Kenya being that centre personnel are continually called on to perform routine professional jobs such as practical examinations for final year college students . |
| 17 | Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In contrast to Mallet and Naville , they do not appear to believe that there is any fundamental conflict of interests between capital and labour which would lead to them expressing opposing preferences with regard to the taking up of the job design principles they advocate . |
| 20 | Learners require opportunities for both form-focused and function-focused practice in the development of particular skill areas , and if one or the other is lacking they do not appear to benefit as much … |
| 21 | They do not appear anywhere in the Old Testament . |
| 22 | It is a rule that they do not appear on TV or talk to the Press . |
| 23 | The auks , while they do not appear to recognise man as a benefactor , certainly are aware of the signals given by other birds . |
| 24 | Differential ownership of mechanical aids , and differences in the possession of amenities , may affect the way housework is done , and they may have some influence on attitudes to work tasks , but they do not appear to affect satisfaction with work . |
| 25 | Yet they do not appear to have been cowed by systems or professionals . |
| 26 | Proportional series are dealt with in more specific detail as they do not appear anywhere else in the book . |
| 27 | The sailors have local institutions , but , from causes not unconjecturable , they do not appear to help forward the cause of seafarers . |
| 28 | Possible subjects and other pronominal references are inserted here in angle brackets for the reader 's benefit — they do not appear in the Japanese text : |
| 29 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 30 | But while such differences are common , they do not appear to be universal . |