Example sentences of "appeared [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience .
2 This group appeared to be opposed to both Mobutu and the leadership of the Sacred Union , calling for a new generation to take control of Zaïrean politics .
3 In reviewing the four projects , the Social Services Inspectorate identified ten key elements which appeared to be crucial to the achievement of effective multidisciplinary assessment ( DoH , 1989b ) .
4 Bacteriophages appeared to be harmless to man , and seemed to be promising therapeutic agents of revolutionary importance .
5 For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids .
6 Much later , in 1892 , a sealed bottle of this isoprene was found to contain yellowish lumps which appeared to be similar to natural rubber .
7 This continued until the other day , when the fish ended up floating on its back and appeared to be close to death , although it recovered .
8 You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features .
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