Example sentences of "[conj] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 2 | the property was deposited by or on behalf of the guest expressly for safe custody with the proprietor or some servant of his authorised , or appearing to be authorised , for the purpose , and , if so required by the proprietor or that servant , in a container fastened or sealed by the depositor ; or |
| 3 | The test of incapacity should be either that contained in s94(2) ( where a judge has to be satisfied of the incapacity ) or that in the wider provision of s145(1) ( where the patient is " a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder " ) . |
| 4 | As the guidance points out , ‘ there are occasions where objectivity may be threatened or appear to be threatened by the provision to an audit client of services other than the audit ’ . |
| 5 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 6 | And maybe that 's the case , or appear to be the case but it can be hurting the cause of Christ . |
| 7 | Caleb is — or appears to be — a night-watchman . |
| 8 | 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 ) ) . |
| 9 | It was all very uninvolving , or appeared to be so . |
| 10 | Investigators in 1897 in Lyons , in 1908 in Vienna , repeatedly showed that various bacteria failed to grow or appeared to be destroyed in the vicinity of Penicillium moulds , but the practical application of this fact was elusive . |
| 11 | She was proud of it : proud of his masterful nature — or appeared to be . |
| 12 | Amiss spent a deeply frustrating hour rushing to his post any time the cleaner left or appeared to be absorbed in his job , frequently having the conversation drowned out by the sound of a vacuum cleaner and in between having to exchange inane pleasantries . |
| 13 | On the very narrowest level , it seemed to him , Rudolf Hess must be a gold mine of strategic information , although the experts at SIS had said his position in the Nazi hierarchy was not perhaps all it had been or appeared to be . |
| 14 | So , this fact that there 's no plan , or appeared to be no diary although there was a diary was n't there ? |
| 15 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 16 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 17 | Even horses that appear to be asleep or resting , continue to change their weight from one hind foot to the other , to swish their tails , twitch an occasional muscle in their sides , and to keep their ears moving and informing them of what is happening all around . |
| 18 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 19 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 20 | In the second ( more profound and unconscious ) , the reader engages with certain associations that appear to be personal to the reader and that come together as one , central fantasy . |
| 21 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 22 | Before we move on the actual method of working out this printout , please take a closer look at Figure 1 and notice that , at the bottom left hand corner , there are some blocks of colour that appear to be part of the whole design . |
| 23 | Incorporated in this revolt was both the resurrection of classical principles and the development of new ones that appear to be incompatible . |
| 24 | Investments that appear to be too good to be true often are . |
| 25 | ( a ) which sets out in summary form the most important information derived from your research and the main lessons to be learned from your interpretation of that information ; ( b ) which spells out the policy implications of your findings and , where appropriate , the follow-up actions that appear to be necessary ; and ( c ) which indicates what further research might be undertaken to pursue some of the findings uncovered by your own research . |
| 26 | The theoretical view seems to offer a convenient framework for a broad division of history into periods which can be described by innovations that appear to be characteristic of each . |
| 27 | For events that appear to be crises at the time ( although not in a longer perspective ) occur even in the intervening years . |
| 28 | This means that policy implementation may require bargaining and dealing between agencies , and that therefore considerations may be brought into the inter-policy relationship that are very much wider than the ones that appear to be at stake . |
| 29 | Traditionally , those bathrooms for people with mobility problems have n't been attractive — available only in white and with various attachments that appear to be included as afterthoughts . |
| 30 | Whatever the case , it is not only governments in the Middle East that appear to be more pragmatic now than in the recent past and although anti-TNC rhetoric is still common for public consumption , the line is substantially moderated in regulations for and negotiations with the TNCs . |