Example sentences of "of [noun prp] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 2 | The latter part of March appears to be something of an uphill battle , and no doubt you will continue to feel nonplussed because of others ' outrageous demands over finances or business associations . |
| 3 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 4 | THE tiny Pyrenean principality of Andorra appeared to be heading for a ‘ yes ’ vote yesterday on a new constitution to reform a rule run largely on feudal lines . |
| 5 | In the late eighteenth century the economy of Spain appeared to be on the move . |
| 6 | A diminutive figure of Minerva appears to be directing operations from the rear . |
| 7 | The narrow neck just south of Aldeburgh appears to be surprisingly resistant : it was breached , however , by the 1953 floods , but reformed by bulldozers within a few days . |
| 8 | This was expressed in a more rational and less extreme form than in the Britons Society , although individuals like Baron Sydenham of Coombe appeared to be connected with both . |
| 9 | Perched on the hillsides are typical old Provençal villages , some , like Oppéde-le-Vieux , crumbling , haunted , half-deserted , others like Bonnieux with a flourishing modern village built below the old one , and up beyond Apt , through the dramatic stretch of ochre-mining country , the strange red-gold village of Roussillon appears to be toppling precariously on the edge of a craggy cliff . |
| 10 | The launch comes at a time when support for the Green Parties of Europe appears to be waning . |
| 11 | Worse still , the rest of Europe appeared to be following Britain 's slide . |