Example sentences of "[noun sg] appear [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 2 | Various types of cognitive therapy to bring an improvement in psychiatric disorders by altering maladaptive thinking appear to have been successful ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Lancashire burial registers , for instance , refer to fever , ague fever and pleurisy , but several diseases rather than a single culprit appear to have been responsible . |
| 4 | Although some catholic bishops are known to have been exiled during the reign of Alaric II , where there is any detailed evidence of the circumstances , factors other than religious conflict appear to have been important . |
| 5 | In the early days of independence , TANU and the Government appear to have been anxious to lower the political temperature , following the excitement of the previous three years . |
| 6 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 7 | Described in this way the aims of the project appear to have been ambitious ; the teachers believed them to be quite modest . |