Example sentences of "appear [prep] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , according to lawyers , the new courts are little different to the ones they replace , but they appear to be generally welcomed . |
| 2 | We would note that many languages have , in addition to the three basic sentence-types mentioned above , others that appear to be similarly circumscribed in use : exclamatives that are used paradigmatically to express surprise , imprecatives to curse , optatives to express a wish , and so on ( again , see Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 3 | Small software and services companies appear to be most undervalued |
| 4 | Some rifts appear to be clearly related to divergent crustal movements with lateral extension being normal to the rift axis . |
| 5 | In general , the items appear to be well selected to reflect a broad range of grammatical abilities . |
| 6 | The authors , who appear to be well qualified to write on this topic , state that the book is intended as an introduction to the concept of non-directive play therapy . |
| 7 | The ideas of problem solving appear to be well known or obvious , but most of us will be able to recall situations where we spent hours or days on a problem whose solution was ‘ obvious ’ once we found it . |
| 8 | Pastures in the Auvergne uplands of Puy-de-Dome and Cantal appear to be heavily used by birds of prey , indicating that they support good populations of small mammals and birds which in itself indicates that the majority are agriculturally unimproved . |
| 9 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and contiguous only on the first 2–3 arm segments , the plates in profile appear to be slightly swollen . |
| 10 | The first ventral arm plate is triangular , subsequent ones pentagonal with the distal edge becoming more convex distally , separated along the length of the arm ; the proximal ones appear to be slightly swollen . |
| 11 | In such circumstances LCH may take certain steps that appear to be best calculated to discharge the member 's rights and liabilities under registered contracts and , upon such discharge , to certify two net sums : one the amount of the member 's net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of client account contracts ; and the other the amount of his net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of other registered contracts . |
| 12 | Of the available types the unification-based grammars appear to be best suited to dealing with a large coverage of English . |
| 13 | One explanation is that the cell junctions between the rapidly dividing and undifferentiated cells which come to line the parasitised mucosa appear to be incompletely formed , and as a result , macromolecules may pass into and out of the epithelial sheet . |
| 14 | Researchers have noted that such reports appear to be easily biased by social stereotypes ( Diges , 1988 ) and the way in which data is collected ( Sheehy , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Often the counsellor of ageing people will experience this when , after talking with them for a short period , many of the pressures and worries appear to be visibly lifted from their shoulders . |
| 16 | Thus a state whose institutions appear to be newly absorbed or influenced by the partisan considerations of government is likely to suffer erosion of legitimacy whenever it is challenged on a particular point . |
| 17 | The second problem is that Yugoslav trade values appear to be substantially understated , even in terms of dollars . |
| 18 | Even novels which appear to be furthest removed from the lives of those who wrote them — the work of Kafka , of Lewis Carroll , of the contemporary feminist writer Marge Piercy — have drawn on the real life surroundings of their authors . |
| 19 | It showed that most species are patchily dispersed , while many appear to be randomly distributed and a very few are uniformly distributed . |
| 20 | Short-term adjustments in exchange rates appear to be more influenced by interest rates , economic factors ( oil prices , strikes , money supply growth ) and political events ( elections , wars , East-West tension ) in individual countries . |
| 21 | You always appear to be perfectly contented . ’ |
| 22 | In addition , NCp7 and several NCp7 mutants protect DNAs from nuclease digestion while the DNA ends appear to be poorly protected . |
| 23 | The interaction between c-Myc and Bcl-2 differs from the usual form of oncoprotein cooperation as observed between c-Myc and activated Ras in that , although c-Myc/Bcl-2 fibroblasts proliferate continuously in the absence of mitogens , they neither appear to be morphologically transformed nor to form foci in monolayer culture ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | The discourses of science and philosophy , for example , which appear to be entirely directed towards some external referent and whose intelligibility would seem to depend on their transparency , are simply an effect produced by language itself . |
| 25 | In the English coalfields flanking the London-Brabant Massif , Westphalian A and B units have the highest frequency of coal occurrence ( see Ramsbottom et al. 1978 ) and the coals appear to be evenly distributed between these two units . |
| 26 | Both Rychner ( 1960 ) and van den Boogaard note that the five Anglo-Norman fabliaux with identifiable French counterparts tend to appear to be further removed from hypothetical original forms . |
| 27 | The theoretical assumptions of the Lancaster Inventory are considerable , and did not appear to be widely shared by staff on the Modular Course . |
| 28 | His face was chalk-white and wore a dazed expression , and the uniform he was wearing was crumpled and torn but thankfully he did n't appear to be badly injured . |
| 29 | While these merchandising agreements would appear to be universally welcomed by the publishers that have been approached at Dillons , another scheme which is currently under discussion may be greeted with more caution . |
| 30 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |