Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [Wh det] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead was a short marble staircase , leading to what appeared to be a lecture-room on the next floor . |
| 2 | He went from the light grey day into the gloom of a kitchen and immediately found his feet colliding with what appeared to be an armada of saucepans placed on every foot of the flagged floor . |
| 3 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |
| 4 | Ross seemed to know what he was doing — which was just as well , since it felt very weird to be travelling on what appeared to be the wrong side of the road . |
| 5 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 6 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 7 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 8 | Chopra contemplated what he had seen : a series of disconnected limbs squirming and fighting in what appeared to be a pool of mud . |
| 9 | A scene on the inner face of a plate in the upper middle of the aspect illustrated shows a procession of spearmen on foot and mounted warriors accompanied by three trumpeters assisting at what appears to be the sacrifice of a prisoner . |