Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [adv] appear to be " in BNC.

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1 During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s .
2 This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited .
3 This groove also appears to be an ‘ inborn ’ difference ( Imreie & Wyburn , 1958 ) .
4 This goal too appeared to be self-defeating in the Nikol'skaia volost' .
5 Oncogenic mutations in this gene consistently appear to be recessive , loss of function mutations that result in an absent or non-functional protein .
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