Example sentences of "[noun] they appear to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were neat and not unpleasing in design , though to Winnie 's eyes they appeared to be built far too close together , and the low wire fences gave no privacy . |
| 2 | It was difficult to tell the passage of time , but when Blake opened his eyes they appeared to be within reach of the rising smoke . |
| 3 | As a general rule they appeared to be slowish , considering most of them were large animals , but there seems to be a considerable variation between species of greatly differing body sizes . |
| 4 | At least 17 of these ‘ cancer genes ’ have been identified , and in every case they appear to be identical or very similar to normal genes found in the chromosomes of healthy cells . |
| 5 | It is true that the corrective measures that can be taken do not usually have an immediate response , and that in many cases they appear to be quite small actions , relative to the size of the problem with which you are grappling . |
| 6 | But for long periods at The Dell they appeared to be preoccupied by Sunday 's Rumbelow 's Cup final against Manchester United . |
| 7 | Their age is unknown but at Tyndrum they appear to be related to a late Caledonian extensional phase , with plutonic activity , associated with the main E-W Tyndrum fault ( Pattrick and others , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | They are shaped like giant kingfishers and in the sunlight they appear to be golden . |