Example sentences of "[conj] appears to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caleb is — or appears to be — a night-watchman . |
| 2 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 3 | The United Biscuits chairman is , however , concerned that today 's executive finds himself working in a business environment that appears to be in danger of moral decline . |
| 4 | Iraqi mujaheddin are fighting a guerrilla campaign that appears to be growing in scope and intensity . |
| 5 | Even the horse that appears to be a loner needs the herd . |
| 6 | People are frequently not aware that horses need companions ; and to support this idea they may even point out a horse in a paddock that appears to be grazing alone and away from all the other horses . |
| 7 | Despite this cloud that appears to be looming over the industry , it is worthwhile bearing in mind that the impact of interest rates and the poll tax is not felt uniformly across the country or among different groups . |
| 8 | This is the Harlequin Principle and is vividly expressed on the body of the harlequin sweetlips , a fish that appears to the eye as a collection of coral reef growths . |
| 9 | ‘ Way of life ’ we have used to symbolise the familiar , the comfortable , a social world that appears to the actor as natural , without mystery or artifice , in which he feels confident , competent , at home . |
| 10 | Calcium deficiency can lead to osteoporosis , common in older people , which resembles the loss of bone that appears to be a universal phenomenon of ageing ( Exton-Smith , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Hill goes on : ‘ I also have to state that I am staggered at the amount of money that appears to be owing and am at a loss to understand how such a situation has been reached . |
| 12 | This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) . |
| 13 | c , Sgr A , 10pc across , is resolved into Sgr A East , a nonthermal radio source presumably powered by supernovae ( in blue ) , and Sgr , A West , a spiral-like pattern of thermal ionized gas that appears to be falling into the very centre of the Galaxy . |
| 14 | Another protein that appears to be left out of this picture is RasGRF , a mammalian Ras activator with a more restricted tissue distribution than the Sos proteins . |
| 15 | Though the levels are still low , it is their slow accumulation that appears to be important . |
| 16 | Moreover , it is not only the quantity but also the composition ( or ‘ quality ’ ) of the North-South drift that appears to be affecting the balance between the two parts of the country . |
| 17 | A fundamental distinction has been drawn that appears to be useful : between the measurement focus of accounting and the basis of accounting . |
| 18 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 19 | With different degrees of success , two articles venture upon ground that appears to be substantially less well worked than that already considered . |
| 20 | However , there is much about Alsace that appears to be Germanic , including the outward appearance of the wines which suggests a German influence . |
| 21 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 22 | But it is an aspect that appears to be undergoing significant change . |
| 23 | An alternative approach , and the one which is adopted in this study , is to have drivers explicitly performing a driving experiment , though not one that appears to be related to memory , and to present them with a surprise memory test later in the experiment . |
| 24 | The final type of classification is one that appears to be less rather than more relevant for the 1990s than previously . |
| 25 | Well that appears to be so . |
| 26 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 27 | ‘ After talking to officers from other authorities that appears to be quite a significant number of dogs , ’ said Mr Westland . |
| 28 | I have heard stories where such people will offer you something that appears to be ‘ too good to be true ’ . |
| 29 | One kinase that appears to be ideally placed to modulate transcription factor activity is the DNA-dependent protein kinase ( DNA-PK ) that has been shown to phosphorylate a wide variety of transcription factors in vitro . |
| 30 | The Times of 16 June was nearer the mark when it said ‘ … comments have gone farther in the direction of pessimism than appears to be justified ’ and reminded readers that ‘ the objects of the ZETA experiments were to produce and maintain high temperatures and to study the conditions in which these temperatures are produced as an aid to later stages in design . ’ |