Example sentences of "[noun] appears [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asteronyx loveni appears to be widespread in distribution , there being no records from the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Southern Ocean ; the bathymetric range is wide ; from c. 100–4721 m . |
| 2 | The best rule appears to be : if both partners feel inclined , there is no reason why not ; if one is disinclined , leave it till later . |
| 3 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 4 | In many ways , Hegel appears to be the complete opposite of Schleiermacher — whose relations with him in the years that they were colleagues in Berlin might charitably be described as strained . |
| 5 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 6 | For the low risk junctions , however , this result appears to be completely reversed , the high risk exemplars have a slightly lower number of hits than the less risky ones and considerably more false alarms , this corresponds to a higher P(A) for the least risky exemplars . |
| 7 | It seems likely that type-1 astrocytes are a major source of PDGF in the developing rat optic nerve , as the number of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the nerve appears to be limited by the amount of PDGF present , and the number of these precursor cells plateaus at P14 , just when the number of type-1 astrocytes plateaus . |
| 8 | While the current situation in chip fabrication capability appears to be parity , the next frontier for the industry will be the portable devices known as Personal Digital Assistants ; since miniaturisation is a skill of Japanese manufacturers , these can be expected to be made in Japan , and all the strategic alliances made to date reflect this . |
| 9 | The straight-haired , elegant Eugene appears to be the most cerebral member , which is odd since his previous incarnation was as leader of the decidedly bodily Vaselines , a group for whom the term ‘ Kings Of Perv-Rock ’ might have been invented . |
| 10 | ‘ I sort of get the impression that these little boats , the sail boats , they 're in trouble , because the wind appears to be blowing away from the harbour , so if they 're trying to get in , they 're not going to make it . ’ |
| 11 | This criterion appears to be fulfilled by a monodisperse suspension of fluorescein-coated carboxylated latex microparticles ( yellow green Fluoresbrite ; 0.2 μm particle diameter ) ( 13 ) . |
| 12 | The State Department appears to be in favour of that proposition , whereas the Defence Department is against it . |
| 13 | The gradient of the swash bar on its seaward side appears to be related to the nature of the waves , short waves building up steeper gradients than long ones . |
| 14 | As for the upper jaws , percentage incisor loss appears to be a more sensitive indicator of breakage than molar loss . |
| 15 | Molar loss is confused by taxonomic differences in the prey , but incisor loss appears to be equivalent for all rodent species analysed here . |
| 16 | Instability of open complexes appears to be a frequent property of Bacillus promoters recognized by σ A -RNA polymerase . |
| 17 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 18 | Memory for parking a car appears to be generally very good at least in allowing the driver to specify its current location several hours later . |
| 19 | Histamine also increases intracellular calcium , by a mechanism independent of inositol phsophate turnover , however , its effect on acid secretion appears to be mediated mainly via a rise in intracellular cyclic AMP . |
| 20 | The theft appears to be unprecedented and gives scrumping a whole new meaning . |
| 21 | Although some extra money has been allocated to help with the Government programme , the economists say that , generally , the intention appears to be that the initiatives to meet targets will be funded out of existing resources . |
| 22 | On closer inspection , however , that mandate appears to be distinctly fragile . |
| 23 | The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade . |
| 24 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 25 | ‘ Dr Latimer , I hope you 'll agree that your presence on the 614 so close to the time of the crime appears to be something of a coincidence ? ’ |
| 26 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 27 | Although car crime appears to be down this week , PC Fishwick has urged motorists not to become complacent . |
| 28 | Lever Brothers appears to be throwing its weight behind Wisk , its pioneering brand in the fiercely competitive liquid detergent market . |
| 29 | The principal reason for the vast number of parses that may be suggested for relatively simple sentence constructions appears to be the subcategorization of verbs . |
| 30 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |