Example sentences of "[Wh det] appear to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that teachers undertake a number of tasks which appear to be additional to their contractual duties and so voluntary . |
| 2 | In [ 13 ] , the change of syntactic form , although it makes the sentence more concise , has phonological consequences which appear to be undesirable . |
| 3 | Because of the nature of the terrain — the land rocky and barren , the coastline highly indented — villages which appear to be close on the map can often be as far as 30 miles apart by winding road . |
| 4 | The distinction in question is that between two representations of person which appear to be involved in all of the uses of the infinitive : the virtual , generalized intra-verbal person of the infinitive , on the one hand , and the actual , often rank-specified extra-verbal person evoked by the context , on the other . |
| 5 | The Commissioners take considerable trouble to ensure that all relevant arguments are canvassed in the written case , and will invite observations on issues which appear to be relevant and which have not been raised in the written case . |
| 6 | ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’ |
| 7 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 8 | Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud . |
| 9 | It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long . |
| 10 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 11 | With the exception of the muscular changes , which appear to be irreversible , resolution is rapid , and the lungs appear almost completely normal within six months of experimental infection , though a few worms may still be present . |
| 12 | As in the case of an award for pain and suffering , the assessment of damages for loss of amenities is based upon the level of awards in previous cases which appear to be comparable or , failing such awards , upon " impression based of necessity in large measure on the combination of intuition and experience " : per Bridge LJ in Hughes v Goodall , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 18 February 1977 . |
| 13 | There is as yet little evidence that some effects which appear to be important in the laboratory can be demonstrated in more applied settings , for example the interaction between retention interval and arousal , and individual differences in the effects of arousal on memory . |
| 14 | Emphasis must be placed on certain steps and their qualities which appear to be particular to one country and dances should be limited to those which can be recognised . |
| 15 | He aims to show that concepts which appear to be independent are actually interdependent , so that one can not abandon one and leave the others intact . |
| 16 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 17 | The Z-rock ( Cinoptilolite Zeolite ) which we placed in a test tank has split into pieces along what appear to be sedimentary lines and turned yellow . |
| 18 | Even in what appear to be straightforward motor skills the changes in learning are associated with greater selectivity and more economical use of the evidence needed to guide performance . |
| 19 | Although it is usual to model responsibilities in terms of a hierarchical tree there are bound to be overlaps between what appear to be different levels of the hierarchy . |
| 20 | The issue of power brings a thread of coherence to what appear to be divergent reforms . |
| 21 | Now the wise extra-mural department would doubtless maintain a facade of what appear to be voluntary committees . |
| 22 | But it does mean that in analysing the effects of what appear to be clear cases of monopoly , we know where to look for the source of the problem . |
| 23 | Particularly characteristic are what appear to be large courtyard structures , often associated with a detached bath-house ( fig. 4 ) . |
| 24 | My own investigation into the organisation of written texts at lower secondary level ( Harris , 1980 ) points to the occurrence of a range of sharply differentiated linguistic features that vary not so much with subject areas but with what appear to be fundamental text types . |
| 25 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 26 | Our thesis is this : educational accountability is not a localised phenomenon , therefore , what appear to be local responses may have a wider significance than was imagined at their inception . |
| 27 | This is because metaphorical mappings , and hence readings , are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures . |
| 28 | This will not , however , solve the problem of certain children taking on what appear to be menial roles . |