Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] appear to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some kind of a fire appeared to be burning far away on the opposite shore , a tiny pinhole in the screen of night . |
| 2 | With regard to the debate about c and Doppler shifts in the letters pages , light ( velocity c ) reflected or emitted from a surface moving with velocity v towards an observer appears to be blue shifted , or red shifted in the case of a receding surface . |
| 3 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 4 | Some amber can be found washed up onto the shores of East Anglia , but its role as a source appears to be minimal given its relative rarity in cemeteries near to that coast . |
| 5 | For an object to appear to be φ to someone , in the epistemic sense of ‘ appear ’ , he must already have the concept φ . |
| 6 | Another difficulty is that the plasma pressure so far confined in a tokamak appears to be a rather low fraction of the magnetic field pressure , but the upper limit — very important for reactors — has not been established . |
| 7 | Naturally such an arrangement would be politically most acceptable to Moscow and Washington where the balance of local forces which bear upon a conflict appear to be stalemated and where the interests of the superpowers are not greatly asymmetrical . |
| 8 | The heterogeneity between embryos is influenced by the asynchrony of fertilization ( 8 ) while the variation in cell cycle stage within an embryo appears to be due to intrinsic and heritable differences in the blastomeres ( 16 ) . |
| 9 | A figure on a rock appears to be winged like Icarus . |
| 10 | The main obstacles to an agreement appeared to be the desire of the Guam government to retain veto powers over the application within the territory of US federal legislation , and the issue of self-determination for the indigenous Chamorros , who constituted some 45 per cent of the population . |