Example sentences of "[noun] appear have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army authorities appear to have been afraid that they would intervene to prevent the arrest of the paramilitary officers and mounted a special operation by 43 Royal Marine Commando to arrest them also . |
| 2 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 3 | Various types of cognitive therapy to bring an improvement in psychiatric disorders by altering maladaptive thinking appear to have been successful ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Lancashire burial registers , for instance , refer to fever , ague fever and pleurisy , but several diseases rather than a single culprit appear to have been responsible . |
| 5 | Their office blocks appear to have been symmetrical and , as The Saturday remarked , based on the architecture of fourteenth-century Flemish Town Halls ; ‘ very picturesque and well massed up , albeit a little slight in parts , particularly the towers ’ . |
| 6 | Certainly in England some judges appear to have been unaware of the shift in emphasis which had taken place in the law . |
| 7 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 8 | The marriage appears to have been childless . |
| 9 | His statement and robust delivery from the dispatch box in front of an initially sceptical House of Commons appear to have been sufficient to rally Conservative backbenchers . |
| 10 | For neither of them did the medication appear to have been helpful and , in collaboration with their general practitioner , it was therefore stopped . |
| 11 | Communication between Raistrick and Fleming appears to have been minimal . |
| 12 | On the Medway estuary in Kent , raised banks built by the Romans to keep out the sea lasted substantially until the eighteenth century , and the extent of Roman reclamation appears to have been formidable . |
| 13 | But Chancellor Kohl appears to have been startled by suggestions that his letter to President Mitterrand last week implying an intention to go slow on EMU might have been inspired by a desire to play the German unity card in the West German general election next year . |
| 14 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 15 | The effect on the shrimp population appears to have been catastrophic : fishing boats are returning to Bahrain with only 1 per cent of their pre-war catches . |
| 16 | Its diet appears to have been soft fruit , which appeared to contradict the suggestion that thick enamel was adaptive for hard fruit diets ; but the more recent conclusion that the microwear of the much earlier thick-enamelled hominoid from Pasalar is indicative of a hard-fruit diet suggests that there was a dietary shift after the development of thick enamel , with dietary change independent of morphology . |
| 17 | Both of these deals appear to have been routine commercial transactions , with scant political significance . |
| 18 | Although some catholic bishops are known to have been exiled during the reign of Alaric II , where there is any detailed evidence of the circumstances , factors other than religious conflict appear to have been important . |
| 19 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 20 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |
| 21 | The power of the element of statehood among the dominant beliefs appears to have been sufficient to neutralize the provisional movement in the South , even though it was severely tested by the event of Bloody Sunday in 1972 , when thirteen demonstrators were killed by British soldiers in Derry , and by the provisional hunger strikes of 1981 . |
| 22 | If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street . |
| 23 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 24 | Since federal expenditure on administration was only 48 billion dinars , expenditure on this item by all other agencies appears to have been 355 billion dinars , or about 3.8 per cent of adjusted social product in that year . |
| 25 | Certainly Ambassador Bruce 's reporting from Paris appears to have been impartial ; while the Far Eastern memorandum took for granted first that those in command of the so-called Vietnamese Democratic Republic were men trained in the methods and doctrines of international communism ; secondly , that should they succeed , a pattern of foreign totalitarianism would be clamped upon Vietnam under which all liberties , national and personal , would be lost and thirdly , that the paramount question in Indo-China was whether the country was to be saved from communist control : all other issues were irrelevant . |
| 26 | This patient also showed speech limited initially to simple words and phrases during the early post-operative period but her auditory comprehension appears to have been good ( Gott , 1973 ) . |
| 27 | This generalised definition appears to have been sufficient to justify the Article 3(4) designation . |
| 28 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 29 | The first attempt to assess cerebral dominance for language in a group of non-right handed patients appears to have been that of Pratt , Warrington and Halliday ( 1971 ) who tested 12 right handers and 12 so-called left handers . |
| 30 | The Chinese leaders appear to have been dissatisfied with a number of aspects of the Sino-Soviet treaty of 1950 , and at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 they were reportedly unhappy about the manner in which Khrushchev had denounced the actions of Stalin . |