Example sentences of "appeared to be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around it Willie had added rain so that it appeared to be flying against a great wind . |
| 2 | A small , battered house in a small battered terrace ; the buildings appeared to be leaning on one another for support . |
| 3 | They matched the rugs draped over the equipment on stage , so you appeared to be looking into a stall at a bazaar . |
| 4 | Then she saw the man 's face through the open mouth and immediately turned her head away so that she appeared to be looking at something of consuming interest outside the window . |
| 5 | She pretended to be busy dealing with her correspondence but she did not see the letters she appeared to be looking at . |
| 6 | She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot could n't tell whether or not she was being stared at . |
| 7 | She kept getting bones in her mouth and each time she took one out O'Hara appeared to be looking in her direction . |
| 8 | What was odd was that the wizard was obviously struggling with it , and it appeared to be singing to itself . |
| 9 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |
| 10 | The OMON appeared to be acting on party orders . |
| 11 | It is not an exaggeration to say that these kept the campaign afloat when it appeared to be sinking for lack of funds . |
| 12 | Well , at least Francesca 's mind appeared to be functioning on a subject unconnected with her damned brothers , McLeish thought grimly . |
| 13 | A man who appeared to be passing with a camera took a photograph of it . |
| 14 | The July peace agreement designed to end the fighting between Moldova and the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic appeared to be holding on Aug. 7 as Russian and Moldovan leaders began talks in Moscow on the implementation of the accord , and on economic ties . |
| 15 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 16 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 17 | Food and medicine reached the eastern town of Zepa , but there was still no aid distribution in Sarajevo , despite a unilateral , nationwide cease-fire called by Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , which appeared to be holding around the capital , although fighting was reported elsewhere in the country . |
| 18 | This barrage was much closer and more concentrated , the shells passing over appeared lower than the shells from the Naval guns , and the noise more intense , the guns appeared to be firing from the bottom of the orchard . |
| 19 | Barney appeared to be mulling over what he had just learned ; several times he looked searchingly at Melissa across the table . |
| 20 | Platt , moved up front as Les Ferdinand 's minder , came close with a shot parried by Benedettini and Bruno Muccioli raced in to head over the bar as the ball appeared to be dropping into goal . |
| 21 | By contrast to its growing enmity with Inkatha , the ANC appeared to be moving towards a new accommodation with the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , originally formed in 1958 as a breakaway from the ANC . |
| 22 | Yeltsin appeared to be moving towards a rapprochement with the centrist Civic Union opposition [ see pp. 38974 ; 39058 ; 39108 ] , in an attempt to gain its support before the Congress met and to avert the danger of his government and its economic reforms being overturned by the Congress ( elected in 1990 and dominated by conservative forces ) . |
| 23 | After 1937 the centre of power in the Party appeared to be moving towards the individual membership , but in 1939 the union leaders showed their strength in ensuring the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps and his supporters . |
| 24 | Increasingly when he used the term ‘ Fascist ’ he appeared to be thinking of it more narrowly as National Socialism . |
| 25 | The BMA 's Scottish secretary , Dr Vivienne Nathanson , questioned why the drive to improve health appeared to be stopping at Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 26 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 27 | The marble block was then set into the wall of the family tomb , so the occupants appeared to be gazing at passers-by as if from a window . |
| 28 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 29 | In this case it was a jury of 12 which , by its verdict , appeared to be commenting on the legitimacy of governmental action in attempting to mislead the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano , an Argentinian warship , during the Falklands Campaign in 1982 . |
| 30 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |