Example sentences of "of [noun] appear to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 2 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 3 | The correspondence between the two sets of figures appears to be good . |
| 4 | To obtain the best value for money , accident data are analysed to identify sites where the number of accidents appear to be high . |
| 5 | The principal sources of natural oxides of nitrogen appear to be chemical decomposition of nitrates and lightning . |
| 6 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 7 | All these restrictions , whether carrying a right to compensation or not , are imposed in the public interest , and the essence of the compensation problem as regards the imposition of restrictions appears to be this — at what point does the public interest become such that a private individual ought to be compelled on to comply , at his own cost , with a restriction or requirement designed to secure that public interest ? |
| 8 | In contrast , the effect of expenditure appears to be progressive , with cash transfers being sizeable at the lower end . |
| 9 | Two separate processes of expansion appear to be visible : an outward expansion along the roads , representing the primary use of convenient and ready-made frontages , and an outward expansion away from the roads into new land , reflecting a secondary process as and when the need for access to the centre became an overriding concern . |
| 10 | Althusser 's conception of a structure in dominance is based on the sense , which he attributes to Marx , that in each society one particular kind of interest appears to be central in determining the character of that society as a whole ; for example , economic interests are uppermost in capitalist society , but during the Middle Ages religious concerns dominated social life . |