Example sentences of "these [noun] appear to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers of state bureaucrats and managerial staff in industry and agriculture were reduced because these institutions appeared to be developing as centres of opposition to the party ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 34 ) . |
| 2 | The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade . |
| 3 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 4 | Furthermore these changes appear to be contingent on the choice of the verbal head beat vs beaten . |
| 5 | But it omits a crucial sentence that appeared in the scientists draft report which read : ‘ These figures appear to be minimum values because a ) the decrease in the isotopic ratio in blood probably had not reached equilibrium in 1979 and b ) they reflect solely the contribution of the petrols affected by the lead isotopic ratio change , ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm disturbed that so many of these infants appear to be illiterate . |
| 7 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 8 | Although these results appear to be consistent with the short-term/long-term distinction inherent in Wagner 's theory , they do not require us to make the distinction . |
| 9 | These findings appear to be representative of other studies concerned with carers of dependent elderly ( parker 1985 ; Qureshi and Walker 1989 ) . |
| 10 | On the surface these remarks appear to be true , and even between the lines immorality occurs regularly . |