Example sentences of "appeared [prep] be some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 2 | There appeared to be some similarity with the decline of Macmillan 's regime in the early sixties — Cabinet reshuffles ; acute balance of payments ' difficulties , a shaky pound , and high interest rates ; a renewal of strikes on the railways , the docks , and in local government services ; a somewhat disaffected public apprehensive at Britain 's declining power in the world . |
| 3 | In fact Devon appeared to be some way behind other areas of the country in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | For example , in a normal conversation between a child and an adult , if the child said ‘ er … um ’ or looked puzzled in response to a question , the adult would attempt to resolve what appeared to be some problem of understanding by rephrasing the question or asking what the problem was . |
| 5 | However , from the supplementary information collected , by questionnaire , from LEAs a year alter the initial review , there appeared to be some increase in the use of the reported incidence of practical work , and about two-thirds of the completed questionnaires indicated that calculator skills were tested . |
| 6 | The Monteith experiment ( summarized very baldly ) concluded that its experience had been broadly encouraging , that there appeared to be some evidence of correlation of a student 's personal library effectiveness and other measures of educational development , and that ( of course ) more research was necessary . |
| 7 | It appeared to be some disturbance of the atmosphere , a puckering slash of the ethereal epidermis itself . |
| 8 | Looking ahead , Mr Hely Hutchinson said that company plans continued to make cautious assumptions about the general economic outlook , but that there appeared to be some positive indications . |
| 9 | In practice , however , there appeared to be some ambivalence about whether care programming was aimed at people being discharged from hospital or at a wider range of those who use mental health services . |
| 10 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 11 | There was extensive second-degree smutting and several nasty blots of what appeared to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |