Example sentences of "he appears to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appears to be something of a Lingfield specialist , having won twice on the all-weather flat track . |
| 2 | He appears to be the standard bearer of a young , more radical generation of clergymen in deep conflict with their elders and increasingly assertive in their defence of religious , cultural and ethnic rights . |
| 3 | As each day passes , he appears to be thrown further back on his own heels . |
| 4 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 5 | There has , nevertheless , been time to watch him and he appears to be hitting shot after shot pretty well exactly where he wants it . |
| 6 | There has , nevertheless , been time to watch him and he appears to be hitting shot after shot pretty well exactly where he wants it . |
| 7 | Just as the novelist considered the deconstruction and demythologizing of carefully selected cultural stereotypes to be a politically liberating activity , so , in the same way , he appears to be propagating an idealistic and positivistic view of the literary text which he was so quick to criticize in Sartre 's aesthetics . |
| 8 | On ‘ Do n't Be So Hard ’ he appears to be empathising with a woman who is overpowered and made to feel insignificant by her partner : ‘ At home , she tells him little lies , like onions always make her cry . ’ |
| 9 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 10 | Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches . |
| 11 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 12 | Compared with the emotionally sterile George Bush he appears to be nothing short of a sexual dynamo . |
| 13 | He appears to be randomly pressing buttons . |
| 14 | Is Mark E Smith as grumpy as he appears to be ? |
| 15 | At this time he appears to be a rich chocolate brown and this enhances the orange edging to the dorsal and anal fins yet further . |
| 16 | He appears to be offering a total cinema in which technique , story , social setting , and spiritual values came together . |
| 17 | It is not clear from the article to what extent it was Dutch society that he was basing his analysis on , but given that he appears to be making a general point about changes within Western Europe , it is important to point out that most of the literature on youth , adolescence and relations between the generations in Britain has tended to concentrate on , to use Elias ' term again , the changing balance of power between the generations within the working class . |
| 18 | The fact that his form has been positively Bradmanesque may have something to do with this , but one suspects it has more to do with the ‘ Get Out of Jail Free ’ card he appears to be clutching . |
| 19 | Consequently , the Rationalist is a dangerous and expensive character to have in control of affairs , and he does most damage , not when he fails to master the situation ( his politics , of course , are always in terms of mastering situations and surmounting crises ) , but when he appears to be successful ; for the price we pay for each of his apparent successes is a firmer hold of the intellectual fashion of Rationalism upon the whole life of society . |
| 20 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 21 | As the author is a dealer , he appears to be in touch with objects which might otherwise escape attention , and this spices up what could be a tired subject . |
| 22 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 23 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |
| 24 | His benevolent brown eyes are looking at the floor to Shirley 's left , about five feet beyond her , and he appears to be thinking not about the flute as a career , but about the problems and opportunities of kitchen floor tiling . |
| 25 | ‘ No , he appears to be the only one with any sense , ’ Ellie said drily . |
| 26 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 27 | Would you not agree that he appears to be back to the form of two years ago ? ’ |
| 28 | He appears to be back to his best and I would n't rule him out . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 30 | ( 87 ) He appears to be unaware of after-image phenomena and , so far as I can make out , puts forward an explanation , instead , which says that movement can be perceived when no object is seen to move ! |