Example sentences of "[noun] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that is sufficient reason for claiming that postmodern organization forms appear to be implicit in these developments . |
| 2 | A number of present-day non-standard and casual speech forms appear to be indicated by some features of variable ME spelling . |
| 3 | Today , service , seniority , and experience do not appear to be considered at all , your religion or creed appear to be an important factor in regulating your progress in the Service … ’ |
| 4 | For example , it may be more important for a government that a public sector pay settlement appear to be within the limits of pay policy , than for it actually to be so . |
| 5 | In technique and effect , relaxation therapy , hypnosis and autohypnosis , autogenic training and meditation appear to be very similar . |
| 6 | Child care policy and practice in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands appear to be converging towards family and community-oriented services , although the pace of change seems to be slower in Flanders than in the other two countries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No tote and with the betting shops closed , Sunderland appear to be taking quite a financial chance on their October 11 meeting . |
| 9 | Culminations of hanging wall complexes over footwall ramps appear to be promising sites for hydrocarbon accumulation , and are likely to have seismic , gravity , and magnetic expression . |
| 10 | But there 's no evidence that a penny has been actually paid — or that Varsov International , whose headquarters appear to be somewhere in the Caribbean , even possesses £5 million . " |
| 11 | When large quantities of oil are released after the break-up of a tanker , for example , sea birds appear to be more visibly affected than the smooth-skinned dolphins , possibly because cetaceans can choose to swim away from oil slicks , and do not have to keep returning through slicks to nesting sites on shore . |
| 12 | ‘ And , if that was n't enough , even while I 'm realising what an idiot I 'm being to grow so infuriated that you and Lubor Ondrus appear to be in each other 's pockets , you , who have no fear whatsoever of my dog — indeed have that day taken him walking — now seem to be taking him over too ! |
| 13 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 14 | International Business Machines Corp and IBM Credit Corp appear to be seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market , Reuter reports from New York ; the loans are said to be being arranged by Credit Suisse and syndicated to a group of relationship banks , each of which has been asked to commit around $500m . |
| 15 | The authorities appear to be ignored in practice with impunity , perhaps because there is frequently a power of arrest in situations in which the police at present exercise the ‘ power . ’ |
| 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 | With Nigeria , after only just over two years of the new system , it is still too early to be sure , but in general governments at federal and state level appear to be respecting the guarantees of freedom of expression . |
| 18 | Both tasks require courage of a high order , imagination , and the ability to lead people , but the last is very much easier when plainly you are advancing , and your organization is on a winning streak , than when you are trying to hold the team together while struggling against what at times appear to be nearly impossible odds . |
| 19 | In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA . |
| 20 | Far Eastern cultures appear to be the most favourable in which to grow old . |
| 21 | Accepted procedural rules appear to be that the person selected must have the support of a majority in the House of Commons ( if need be , after a new general election ) , and that the Monarch must ‘ secure the strongest Government in the minimum time ’ while still observing the need for public impartiality . |
| 22 | The dangers appear to be Readingbased Prince Charming ( 41.90 ) and local open racer Breathless ( 41.99 ) , trained by Gordon Rooks . |
| 23 | Law and Gilbert ( 1986 ) have made a survey of saltmarsh in the Western Isles , and their community definitions appear to be closely similar to those of the NVC . |
| 24 | Briefly the main reasons appear to be : |
| 25 | Dozens more East Germans appear to be crossing into Czechoslovakia , despite East Berlin 's ending of visa-free travel across the border . |
| 26 | Warrington .. 28 Widnes ....... 6 WIDNES appear to be still paying the price of becoming world champions . |
| 27 | The second problem is that Yugoslav trade values appear to be substantially understated , even in terms of dollars . |
| 28 | He said such practical statements were ‘ disturbing to a society whose values appear to be dangerously selfish , namely economic success at the expense of our neighbours and a morality largely based on what the individual wants ’ . |
| 29 | The terms are used loosely and sometimes interchangeably , but the most common meanings appear to be as follows . |
| 30 | If a similar plot for a set of randomly-generated stream patterns shows the same result then it can be concluded , that in the absence of geological and topographical controls , stream patterns appear to be generated by random processes . |