Example sentences of "of [noun pl] appear to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shift in ranking of preferences appears to be related to social class . |
| 2 | In such cases a number of craftsmen appear to be working together ( to the exclusion of others ) on a number of sites and pavements . |
| 3 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 4 | For field staff , however , a review which led to the relaxation of a large number of consents appeared to be in direct contradiction to their efforts ostensibly to bring all dischargers into compliance — ‘ trying to fiddle the books for when the Act comes into force ’ as a northern authority officer put it . |
| 5 | In Asia the number of refugees appeared to be relatively stable with Pakistan still housing an estimated 3,300,000 Afghan refugees . |
| 6 | Livestock grazing levels are moderate ; fertilisers are used but uncommonly ; drainage of wetlands appears to be very unusual and there are climatic and pedological restrictions on ploughing and reseeding of grasslands . |
| 7 | With the passage of time the contribution that these families made to the total genetic diversity of the population became subordinate to the seedling recruits : although the number of seedlings appears to be very small , their contribution to the total number of genetic individuals in the population is clearly significant in determining the number of clones or genets that are present . |
| 8 | There are interim solutions , such as trade restrictions against Japan , but GM 's approach of granting some job security along with a gradual introduction of robots appears to be more constructive . |
| 9 | The rise and fall of governments appeared to be a private arrangement , comfortably thrashed out among a selection of small Balkan states , vaguely situated , acknowledging no relationships outside the domestic circle . |
| 10 | Rather , groups of structures appear to be acquired in set orders across a population of speakers " ( p. 103 ) . |
| 11 | the system of Advisers of Studies appears to be under stress and may not be sufficiently robust to meet the demands of increasing student numbers and course complexity . |
| 12 | The correspondence between the two sets of figures appears to be good . |
| 13 | The behaviour of males appears to be the expression of an underlying strategy that optimizes the probability of sexually effective mating while reducing agonistic competition . |
| 14 | Other possible configurations , which will not , however , be discussed here at any length , are doublets ( exemplified by pairs of opposites — see chapters 9 , 10 and 11 ) , and clusters , which are groupings of lexical items characterised by a lack of structure ( some groups of synonyms appear to be of this nature — see chapter 12 ) . |
| 15 | To obtain the best value for money , accident data are analysed to identify sites where the number of accidents appear to be high . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the beginnings of utterances appear to be particularly unconstrained by either the acoustic material or the linguistic interpretation . |
| 17 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 18 | All these restrictions , whether carrying a right to compensation or not , are imposed in the public interest , and the essence of the compensation problem as regards the imposition of restrictions appears to be this — at what point does the public interest become such that a private individual ought to be compelled on to comply , at his own cost , with a restriction or requirement designed to secure that public interest ? |
| 19 | There are other more familiar ways in which certain parts of integers appear to be related whilst other pairs are not . |
| 20 | However , at the time of writing it is not clear how the new structure will work in practice , especially since RENFE 's systems for determining costs of services appear to be less advanced than those used by BR . |
| 21 | Little wonder that her scrapbook of photographs appeared to be her dearest possession , or that she prowled the landscape at night like an unquiet spirit . |