Example sentences of "appear [to-vb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 2 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 3 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 4 | ‘ At the time of the murder he appears to have been lying low in a barn near Gainsborough . |
| 5 | I do so in the knowledge that the fundamental question appears to have been left open by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re T. ( Adult : Refusal of Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 782 , and in the knowledge that there is no English authority which is directly in point . |
| 6 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 7 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 8 | The new carriageway was , however , short-lived , and a masonry building , probably a bath-house , was constructed across it at this point ; the surviving carriageway appears to have been resurfaced seven times . |
| 9 | Matilda was the first English princess since the seventh century whose year of birth is precisely known ; as for her youthful marriage , this appears to have been becoming commoner as marriage alliances were sought with ever more reckless haste by the great dynasts of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 11 | Flicking through the register , she then noticed that most of the Wednesdays appeared to have been kept free , and as she pondered this strange fact Silas returned to the office . |
| 12 | Under a dark pullover without elbows he was wearing a Levi shirt that appeared to have been sucked colourless by some dog . |
| 13 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |