Example sentences of "[adv] appear [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 2 | Edwards does relate the socialisation patterns of speakers to their Patois competence : " The degree of speakers " integration into the black community as measured by their network score would thus appear to be the most important determinant of their Patois competence . |
| 3 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 4 | Each of these tiny organisms thus appears to be a committee of simpler ones . |
| 5 | It thus appears to be a case in which the payment was made under duress or compulsion and does not support the Woolwich principle . |
| 6 | Whatever the truth of the matter , however , it is enough for present purposes to note that the latest date given in any of the sources is 873/1468 and that there thus appears to be a gap of at least five years between the death of Fahreddin Acemi and the accession of Molla Husrev to the Muftilik . |
| 7 | The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations . |
| 8 | There are two basic reasons for the apparent anomalies in what generally appears to be a steady expansion of the vineyard area : first , the uprooting of old , commercially non-productive vines ; and second , the decimation of large patches of vines due to natural causes like frost , hail , disease , pests , etc . |
| 9 | The columns displaying prices of licensed dealers ' stocks in the national newspapers did not always appear to be the paid advertising they actually were . |
| 10 | And why does it always appear to be the same photograph ? |
| 11 | Confidence on the part of the head is necessary if the senior team — and it always appears to be a group of three , four or five teachers — is to disagree , to question and to criticize him or her direct . |
| 12 | But there still appears to be a need to create a family environment and increasingly , the dog is taking the place of the child . |
| 13 | Mary Mitchell , manager of FSW said : ‘ In spite of the recent campaign by the Inland Revenue , there still appears to be a lot of confusion in people 's minds about the tax system . |
| 14 | Gorer , in his 1970 study of sex in England carried out on behalf of the Opinion Research Centre remarks that , " England still appears to be a very chaste society " . |
| 15 | ‘ However , for some reason , probably because of the changing situation in central and eastern Europe , there still appears to be a lot of life in the Cold War spy genre . |
| 16 | This still appears to be the case despite the enactment of s19A of the Arbitration Act 1950 , which gives arbitrators the statutory power to award interest . |
| 17 | But it did , just my , my quick sieve every time we got these there always appeared to be a slot where it did n't seem to me to be worth being open and and operating |
| 18 | It always appeared to be the busiest of the seven in the street . |
| 19 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 20 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 21 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 22 | The keepers also appear to be a knowledgeable and dedicated group of people , for whom I can only express my admiration of their hard work . |
| 23 | There would also appear to be a need for concern about the sustained elevations of heart rate and body temperature caused by aerobic training during the first trimester of pregnancy in view of the fact that elevated maternal core body temperature rises significantly with aerobic exercise . |
| 24 | Since more than one successful path through the grammar may be necessary ( more than one syntactic combination may be possible from the candidate words ) a parallel process would also appear to be a logical choice . |
| 25 | The role of the accountant also appears to be a mystery . |
| 26 | The result also appears to be a vindication of his gamble to delay the election until almost the last moment in the hope that signs of economic recovery would persuade voters to give him a mandate . |
| 27 | There also appears to be a high incidence of educational retardation and school problems among the children in all three countries ( see Heath et al . , |
| 28 | There also appears to be a strong correlation between depressed BRS and the inducibility of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia at programmed ventricular stimulation . |
| 29 | It also appears to be a cause of traveller 's diarrhoea in early childhood , as reported in older children and adults , and to be associated with chronic diarrhoea in such circumstances . |
| 30 | However , there also appears to be a degree of strategic competition in the market , which in combination with advantages for incumbents that develop over time ( relationships , reputation and expertise ) form a barrier to growth for second line firms . |