Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] appear to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 2 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 3 | There was a sadness in Orkney that religion appeared to be an element in the story . |
| 4 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 5 | Not only did the one-second pulses appear to be closer to each other , but the humps and dips of each of those pulses — they too were closer to each other . |
| 6 | On closer inspection , however , that mandate appears to be distinctly fragile . |
| 7 | On present trends both major political parties appear to be moving towards more means-testing , weeding out claimants and clients , and lifting the more affluent out of the welfare state . |
| 8 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in two series : a superficial series edging the side of the jaw and a series within the mouth slit which might be oral tentacle scales associated with the first and second oral tentacle pores . |
| 9 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in three tiers . |
| 10 | The quality of the schools as social institutions appeared to be more important than their size , administration , or the age of the buildings . |
| 11 | THIS STORY appears to be told by Ingulph , Abbot of Crowland Abbey , 1075–1109 , in his Crowland History . |
| 12 | By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks . |
| 13 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 14 | Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 15 | Importantly , the tariff-equivalent quota appears to be relatively sensitive to the value of δ . |
| 16 | This criterion appears to be fulfilled by a monodisperse suspension of fluorescein-coated carboxylated latex microparticles ( yellow green Fluoresbrite ; 0.2 μm particle diameter ) ( 13 ) . |
| 17 | Yet no part of this extravaganza appeared to be derelict . |
| 18 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 19 | Dogs are particularly vulnerable to this poison , but some snakes appear to be immune . |
| 20 | If the index is computed using ‘ stale ’ prices , it is possible that the no-arbitrage condition appears to be violated , although if current prices were used in computing the index there would be no violation . |
| 21 | There are many different varieties of scabetic mite infesting various mammals , and , although the mites from different animals appear to be similar , they are probably species specific because infestation by the mite from domestic animals does not ‘ take ’ in the human and dies out after a few weeks . |
| 22 | For the low risk junctions , however , this result appears to be completely reversed , the high risk exemplars have a slightly lower number of hits than the less risky ones and considerably more false alarms , this corresponds to a higher P(A) for the least risky exemplars . |
| 23 | Older residential areas appear to be less safe than new ones , a result of mixed land uses and functions , higher densities and lack of play space . |
| 24 | In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things . |
| 25 | Notice , moreover , that this philosophy appears to be in harmony , at least in principle , with that of animal welfare and , adding certain plausible assumptions , anti-cruelty . |
| 26 | They were 99.9 per cent refused on the grounds of the traffic access and this plan appears to be the answer , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 28 | Recruitment of top management appears to be through two circuits , but with a predominantly one-way flow . |
| 29 | German racing as I 've mentioned before in this column appears to be all the rage and there is a big meeting at Baden Baden today with John Oxx featured . |
| 30 | German racing as I 've mentioned before in this column appears to be all the rage and there is a big meeting at Baden Baden today with John Oxx featured . |