Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Or what appears to be outrageous ? ’
2 This means that what appear to be a number of completely different particles at low energies are in fact found to be all the same type of particle , only in different states .
3 It is significant that what appears to be his last autograph , written in a shaky hand in a young girl 's album , is the final passage of the Immortality Ode , which teaches us to live by ‘ the human heart ’ .
4 Analysis of contractor 's cash flow projections and their discounting back to current prices may reveal that what appears to be the cheapest tender is not in fact so , or that it would exceed the client 's budget at certain times .
5 It is therefore vital that what appears to be a non-restrictable act is examined in order to find what really lies behind the employee 's ability to compete/ canvass. 1.2 Business secrets The implied duty to maintain confidence in the employer 's business secrets continues after employment ends .
6 Well , I said , he 'd always had what he called Hinterland ( laughter here from his wife , Edna , across the room ) — not just politics , but poetry , and opera , and painting , and what appears to be a mastery of half a dozen languages , and his family .
7 The sight , for instance , of a fat wrestler dressed in a bright open kimono and what appears to be a black chastity belt sitting on the train reading a comic book .
8 The sleeve of ‘ Elevation ’ contains a map of Scotland , which is nice ; the actual music is busy dancefloor chaos with some weird operatic humming and what appears to be an entire hockey team shouting ‘ Yo ! ’ at various points .
9 An extension of ‘ Justify My Love ’ with a sandpapered down rhythm , yet more breathless ‘ Vogue ’ -style commentary and what appears to be the sound of squeaky bedsprings .
10 This approach , Elliott and Ebbutt argue , stems from HMI 's use of prespecified criteria and what appears to be the use of a check-list by them .
11 The mobile ALCAN unit would seem to be most mobile — looking at the background it would appear to be parked outside either Safeway or Gateway as there is a ‘ Y ’ and what appears to be part of an ‘ A ’ visible on the store front !
12 A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road .
13 Many of them contained pieces of carpet and what appeared to be spindles of thread .
14 The excessive leniency of the law was indicted frequently enough , especially in the wake of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 and what appeared to be a monster ‘ crime wave ’ among the very young .
15 He wore a pair of grey shoes , baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo .
16 All Scathach could see was the forest and what appeared to be the flickering of light filtering through the thinning canopy .
17 The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt .
18 LTP can be tentatively subdivided into several mechanistically distinct components : LTP1 , with a duration of less than 3–6h which is blocked by kinase inhibitors but not by protein synthesis inhibitors ; LTP2 , a component which is blocked by translational inhibitors but which appears to be independent of gene expression ; and LTP3 , with a time constant of several days , which is only obtained if the animal is unanaesthetised at the time of induction and which may require gene expression ( see text ) .
19 Providing we assume that there is still contraction in one direction and expansion in the other ( which we can no longer prove but which appears to be true ) the same analysis will hold .
20 But what appears to be an admission of radical subjectivity can , as Out demonstrates , also lead to subjugation , for if the power of observation to alter its object is harnessed for the benefit of those in possession of the tools of observation , these tools become weapons of cognitive control .
21 There was nothing in sight but what appeared to be a dessert landscape of bare ridges and hollows , with occasional patches of scrappy vegetation , close to the ground .
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