Example sentences of "[verb] not appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 2 | The two policemen who were shown into his room did not appear to be daunted by this . |
| 3 | Ilmor 's Mario Ilien responded to the apparent inconsistency of these threats by pointing out that Fiat did not appear to be included in the ban — even though it has an official Alfa Romeo CART team , operated by Patrick Racing , competing in the Surfers event . |
| 4 | Wexford was listening with concentration , but he did not appear to be listening at all . |
| 5 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 6 | Simon , though , did not appear to be annoyed . |
| 7 | At first sight the house did not appear to be much . |
| 8 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 9 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 10 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 11 | She did not appear to be unduly depressed and now said that she thought the act had been rather drastic , but did not regret it . |
| 12 | He did not appear to be reading it . |
| 13 | At that point , the Russian spirit did not appear to be too affected . |
| 14 | He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor . |
| 15 | Vologsky did not appear to be a strong individual — yet he wanted to go into space , so he could not be a physical coward . |
| 16 | There did not appear to be any police in the crowd . |
| 17 | He was perturbed that , according to Eleanor , she did not appear to be well or happy . |
| 18 | There may be honour among thieves , but there did not appear to be anything similar among social climbers . |
| 19 | It did not appear to be a case where there had been collusion between the employer and the driver to their mutual advantage . |
| 20 | MacDonald 's rhetoric did not solve the problem identified by the League 's advocates — peace through democracy required a scale of popular revolt that did not appear to be on the agenda in the winter of 1916 . |
| 21 | Although he did not appear to be undernourished , he was pale-faced . |
| 22 | One rectangular building straddled the compound fence with an annexe attached on the inside from which there did not appear to be access to the compound . |
| 23 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 24 | This did not appear to be the case . |
| 25 | It certainly did not appear to be because they had any great fear of violence or mass escapes . |
| 26 | The work did not appear to be just one of those relatively soul destroying , ‘ anything to keep them occupied ’ jobs that many prison inmates are forced to undertake . |
| 27 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 28 | There did not appear to be any certainty that the RHA would make capital gain out of the exercise , whether or not such gain might be applied for non-mental health purposes . |
| 29 | To some extent the blame for rural distress was attributed to the fluctuations in world markets , but as the zaibatsu did not appear to be suffering to the same extent , rural discontent was increasingly directed towards the alliance between politicians and industrial financiers . |
| 30 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |