Example sentences of "[prep] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may envy us our power and dependency , which , despite appearing to be contradictory qualities , are not . |
| 2 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 3 | The mainstream critics ' thankless task ( their privilege ) is only completed when every last cultural product is herded into this universal corral of taste where , to quote Bourdieu once more , ‘ the most classifying privilege has the privilege of appearing to be the most natural one ’ . |
| 4 | I wanted to drop everything and run , but I was so scared of appearing to be a coward , even to myself , that I dared not . |
| 5 | Despite her efforts to be helpful and well-behaved , Mildred had an uncanny knack of appearing to be the cause of any trouble which was occurring , and it must be admitted that there were occasions ( particularly when her rather wild imagination ran away with her ) when she managed to turn some peaceful event into a scene of total chaos . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 7 | In contrast to the main characters of Out and Such , the anonymous protagonist of Between appears to be relatively well adapted to the world in which she lives and travels . |
| 8 | It would have been difficult enough in English to ask questions without appearing to be prying ; in my Greek it was impossible . |
| 9 | The male deceives the second female by appearing to be unpaired . |
| 10 | She subtly covered this up by appearing to be concerned about what dangers might face us here at Templecombe . ’ |