Example sentences of "of what appears to " in BNC.

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1 And all against the background of what appears to be a historic breakthrough in black South African politics as the cracks in the apartheid edifice widen and the government begins to lose its grip on the affairs of state .
2 This intermediate stage consists of what appears to be a free-running rhythm with a period that differs from 24 hours .
3 Peter Hough ran through his investigation into a photograph of what appears to be an alien clutching an intergalactic attaché case on Ilkley Moor in a slide show which was like a conceptual exercise in boredom ( ‘ Here 's a slide of the letter I sent asking to hire a Geiger counter to search for radioactive traces left on the moor by the alien …
4 Gemmill found the occasion a little too grand for him , while Black 's performances have been buried under the weight of what appears to be an inflated transfer fee .
5 A bizarre example of what appears to be a Tit for Tat arrangement in nature was discovered by Eric Fischer in a hermaphrodite fish , the sea bass .
6 It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events .
7 By contrast much social work intervention occurs as a result of what appears to be an emergency .
8 There is a large ellipse of what appears to be a mirror within the design , just below the throne .
9 Having established both the ‘ purpose ’ of revolution , and the existence of what appears to be ‘ revolutionary change ’ , the final task is to find the revolutionaries .
10 As an illustration of what appears to be the inevitable result of a strongly objectivist analysis which presupposes its equal relevance for all commodity forms , there follows a brief summary of the trajectory taken by one of the more sustained attempts to focus on the commodity as the central object of research , by the French social theorist Baudrillard .
11 If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking .
12 Doubt is cast upon Bursali Mehmed Tahir 's statement , however , by the fact that in the concluding lines of what appears to be another autograph manuscript of the same work , Molla Husrev remarks that he finished the composition of it certainly refers to the work , not the manuscript ) on Saturday 2 Jumada I 883/Saturday 1 August 1478 , having begun it on Saturday 12 Dhu " l-Ka'da 877/Saturday 10 April 1473 .
13 Many real-world cases of what appears to be monopoly in production can be disentangled and understood in the light of the theoretical possibilities being examined here .
14 While largely discursive , the project seeks to adapt and extend existing economic models of resource use against the background of what appears to be a changed environmentalist outlook .
15 Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant .
16 Although there is some coverage of what appears to be routine violence on estates up and down the country — for example , on Today and This Week recently — this is one area we all under — report .
17 We are trying to find out how a prisoner was able to posess a cannister of what appears to be CS gas ’ .
18 Gate income wo n't exactly increase either over the remainder of what appears to be a relegation season .
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