Example sentences of "[noun prp] appear [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 2 | In the drawing Therese appeared to be about seven feet tall and not at all overweight . |
| 3 | The subject of Ryan was mercifully dropped , and for once Jake appeared to be as anxious as Shiona was to avoid any further confrontation . |
| 4 | Cecil and Darby appear to be equally conventional , but in one case this is rejected , in the other it is accepted . |
| 5 | And yet Maurice appeared to be almost proud , because Harry was not a customer , but somebody who had demanded a favour and given nothing in return . |
| 6 | The narrow neck just south of Aldeburgh appears to be surprisingly resistant : it was breached , however , by the 1953 floods , but reformed by bulldozers within a few days . |
| 7 | Strathclyde and Newcastle appear to be radically different from all of the others in this Table , in that more than 60% of their unconsulted theses have never been cited , and the results contained in them have not yet been published by their authors . |
| 8 | Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt . |
| 9 | ‘ I ONCE SAID PAUL APPEARS to be very dull and stupid , but is in fact very clever , ’ comments Clive Anderson on Merton 's style . |
| 10 | Total union membership in RENFE appears to be about 46 per cent of the workforce . |
| 11 | Since then , however , Meciar appeared to be more reluctant and declared in the same Le Monde interview : " We do n't want independence . |
| 12 | Since then , however , Meciar appeared to be more reluctant and declared in the same Le Monde interview : " We do n't want independence . |