Example sentences of "[adj] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 2 | The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society . |
| 3 | ‘ We are determined to return to profitability during 1993 and I am pleased to say that overall our plans to achieve this appear to be well on course , ’ he said . |
| 4 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 5 | Despite the jitters the cost escalation has caused in the City , the French appear to be taking a more sanguine view . |
| 6 | Some appear to be stuck to the branches and one or two are distinctly fluttering their wings , as if in some kind of trouble . |
| 7 | Not only did this appear to be a slur on the patriotism of seamen ; it also revived memories of the press gang and the imposition of fixed rates of pay without right to complain in any " starvation ship " with a money-worshipping owner . |
| 8 | This appears to be a key point , but it is one that is left controversial . |
| 9 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 10 | At least this appears to be the conclusion of epidemiological studies about weak electro-magnetic exposure and cancer . |
| 11 | This appears to be exactly what has happened . |
| 12 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |
| 13 | This appears to be true of chimpanzees ( under poor food conditions ) , orang-utans , and spider monkeys which show neither coalition formation nor matrilines . |
| 14 | This appears to be a fundamental belief of Judaism and Islam . |
| 15 | Consequently , this appears to be a testing point as well as a turning point both at home and in your career . |
| 16 | This appears to be the sense in which Plato used the idea in the Timaeus . |
| 17 | With variations , this appears to be a model applicable to most of the prominent east-west trending Tertiary anticlines in southern England , as discussed by Stoneley ( 1982 ) , who linked their origin to plate tectonic events in the North Atlantic region . |
| 18 | The only exception to this appears to be in southern Denmark , where the Z3 Carbonate appears to have onlapped the Ringkøping-Fyn High , relative to the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates , and the facies belts and isopachs were displaced towards the basin margin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 19 | This appears to be made up largely of vugs and fractures , although it is not clear whether the ‘ vugs ’ have originated from leaching of evaporites or by brecciation of the carbonates ( Pennington 1975 ) . |
| 20 | There are other texts in which this appears to be a consideration . |
| 21 | This appears to be an interpolation , and Krueger is probably right to suggest that the original had per damnationem legati . |
| 22 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 23 | This appears to be one of their basic problems . |
| 24 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 25 | This appears to be a demonstration of the clear need to bring the APB and ASB under the auspices of the Financial Reporting Council , which could then coordinate both committees ' work programmes . |
| 26 | This appears to be an increasingly important trend . |
| 27 | This appears to be the only source of information available to the child regarding how phonemes , morphemes and words are organised into meaningful sentences . |
| 28 | The reason for this appears to be that the territories occupied by red-winged blackbirds in these marshes vary enormously in their quality , specifically in the amount of food they contain . |
| 29 | The man survived , and this appears to be the record for a human being . |
| 30 | In effect , this appears to be what Nolan and Tucker are proposing in the quotation given on page 231 , and in : |