Example sentences of "[noun] appear [prep] [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidelines appear to be comprehensive and realistic , and should prove effective . |
| 2 | The theft appears to be unprecedented and gives scrumping a whole new meaning . |
| 3 | For the same reason , the sun appears to be whiter and less orange-coloured as the observer 's altitude increases ; this is because a greater proportion of the sunlight comes directly to the observer 's eye . |
| 4 | Autumn passage appears to be slight and may be under-recorded , since many August and September records appear to relate to passage rather than resident birds . |
| 5 | The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 6 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 7 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 8 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 9 | This room appears to be bare and innocuous , with a door to the south , but as soon as one character steps through the east-facing door , all the adventurers find themselves drawn into the Bonefield . |
| 10 | Father Duryea appeared to be hopeful and indulgent . |
| 11 | Damien 's body appeared to be twisting and writhing like a fish on a line but there was no escape for him . |
| 12 | The variations appear to be periodic and might be related to reflectance . |
| 13 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 14 | The jaws appear to be long and narrow . |
| 15 | The jaws appear to be long and narrow . |
| 16 | The arms appear to be wide and slightly flattened . |
| 17 | Does the Attorney-General accept that the many letters protesting at his view about Sunday trading , as expressed in the House , suggest that the matter should be reconsidered by the Government , especially as the approach appears to be inconsistent and hypocritical ? |
| 18 | Over the first nine pages of the book , George appears to be mean and irritable towards Lennie , and seems to treat him very heartlessly , but throughout the book we are shown that the two men depend on one another very much , and they have a very strong relationship . |
| 19 | By Northern blot and PCR analysis Zfx appears to be non-abundant and expressed in all tissues ( 47 ) . |
| 20 | Which version appears to be preferable and why ? |
| 21 | Professor Merton Sandler , an expert in infant nutrition at Queen Charlotte 's Maternity Hospital in London , said yesterday that the report appeared to be significant and should be more fully explored . |
| 22 | To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself . |
| 23 | In the first well the upper unit appears to be porous and by analogy with the Z2 Carbonate elsewhere the porosity is thought to be composed mainly of intergranular and intragranular pores . |
| 24 | The problem with the second version , however , is that because collaboration appears to be spontaneous and may be far removed in space and time from the groundwork which the teacher has laid , the relationship between the two can never be directly established , but only inferred . |
| 25 | The behaviour of the Attorney-General 's office appears to be underhand and contemptible . |
| 26 | Having been highly successful at his previous school , we were shocked to discover that , after half a term , our son appeared to be apathetic and unmotivated and was achieving very little . |