Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] appear [prep] 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 | On closer inspection , however , that mandate appears to be distinctly fragile . |
| 5 | THIS STORY appears to be told by Ingulph , Abbot of Crowland Abbey , 1075–1109 , in his Crowland History . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Importantly , the tariff-equivalent quota appears to be relatively sensitive to the value of δ . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Yet no part of this extravaganza appeared to be derelict . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were 99.9 per cent refused on the grounds of the traffic access and this plan appears to be the answer , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Recruitment of top management appears to be through two circuits , but with a predominantly one-way flow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The development of this zone appears to be related to the major underthrusting and associated metamorphism of local rocks that has apparently occurred along the Main Central Thrust some 100–200 km to the south of the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone . |
| 22 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 23 | Yet a large public sector appeared to be an almost inevitable part of the modern economy . |
| 24 | Most keys of this type appear to be marked in this way , with a varying numbers of Xs used to aid identification . |
| 25 | These featured the abolition of the post of general secretary and its replacement by that of party chairman ( this proposal appeared to be the basis of a rumour broadcast by the United States television network CNN on Jan. 30 , producing a brief panic in world financial markets , that Gorbachev was about to resign ) ; replacement of the politburo with a new body more broadly representative of the Soviet Union 's federal structure ; and reduction in the size of the central committee , which would become a permanent working body . |
| 26 | Various formulae are possible , but the most advantageous from the computational standpoint appear to be the following . |
| 27 | This difference appears to be a clear reflection of the traditional lack of political sophistication amongst Black-Earth peasants . |
| 28 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 29 | As with Aplysia , a key player in this process appears to be calcium ions . |
| 30 | Although the number of older people living in institutions is small the prevalence of dementia among this population appears to be high ( see below ) . |