Example sentences of "[coord] what appeared [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 2 | Many of them contained pieces of carpet and what appeared to be spindles of thread . |
| 3 | The excessive leniency of the law was indicted frequently enough , especially in the wake of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 and what appeared to be a monster ‘ crime wave ’ among the very young . |
| 4 | He wore a pair of grey shoes , baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo . |
| 5 | All Scathach could see was the forest and what appeared to be the flickering of light filtering through the thinning canopy . |
| 6 | The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt . |
| 7 | There was nothing in sight but what appeared to be a dessert landscape of bare ridges and hollows , with occasional patches of scrappy vegetation , close to the ground . |