Example sentences of "appear [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 2 | His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals . |
| 3 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years . |
| 5 | By virtue of this , there does not appear to have been in Ireland any large-scale persecution of heretics . |
| 6 | This however would appear to have been in combat with Bf110s , rather than Bf109s . |
| 7 | The relative autonomy which the state appears to possess is in fact functionally necessary because of the institutional separation of polity and economy in capitalism . |
| 8 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 9 | He appears to have been in partnership before 1812 with Daniel Beale , who had founded the agency business then known as Beale , Reid & Co . |