Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] appeared to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no mention anywhere of Morpurgo or Mrs Diamond by name , nor hint in anything Harry read that all was not as it appeared to be . |
| 2 | Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor . |
| 3 | Because if she had n't done it , if she was exactly as she appeared to be — warm , vibrant , witty , and sensual — he was going to have to marry her , and he knew it . |
| 4 | Here is a curious case of a foreigner already being hailed as an England batting hero long before he was qualified and thrust into the side as soon as he appeared to be . |
| 5 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 6 | At least Stoke-by-Nayland is still almost as it appeared to Constable 's eye . |
| 7 | The most important of these , at least as it appeared to those involved , was the discovery of sea-floor spreading , which was transformed from a brave conception to a probability in 1963 . |