Example sentences of "as they appear to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed futile to go to the police as they appeared to be in the plot . |
| 2 | Certainly not the Ketterings ' ancestors as they appeared to be mostly of sly Italian clerics . |
| 3 | Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor . |
| 4 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 5 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , just that if these things are as good at imitation as they appear to be , then we ca n't entirely trust each other from now on . |
| 7 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |