Example sentences of "[subord] it appear to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 2 | Partisan viewers tended to see television as being less favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other viewers . |
| 3 | At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers . |
| 4 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 5 | Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys . |
| 6 | Pragmatism might be less radical in practice than it appears to be in theory . |
| 7 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 8 | However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat . |
| 9 | This means that information about food obtained by following others was most available to a given individual when it appears to be of least importance . |
| 10 | But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction . |
| 11 | Nothing was as it appeared to be with him . |
| 12 | For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred . |
| 13 | The whole clause is not qualified , as it appears to be on first reading , by the opening words ‘ with intent . ’ |