Example sentences of "[noun sg] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In technique and effect , relaxation therapy , hypnosis and autohypnosis , autogenic training and meditation appear to be very similar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The arms : ( a ) the form of the tentacle pore ; ( b ) the number and shape of the arm spines , the degree of rugosity ; ( c ) the number and shape of the tentacle scales ; ( d ) whether the arm spines of the proximal joints meet midradially forming a fan when viewed transversely ; ( e ) often in outline the arms amy appear to be constricted between the rows of arm spines usually because the articulation areas are elevated . |
| 7 | The jaw appear to be slightly longer than wide . |
| 8 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 9 | Concern has been expressed about the delays in determining the merits test , especially as delay and refusal of legal aid appear to be related . |
| 10 | His two concessions to luxury appear to be a passion for fast cars — he is the proud owner of a turbo-Bentley — and a 5,000 acre estate in Scotland . |
| 11 | Furthermore , there are often subtle differences in what at first glance appear to be similar provisions in different contracts , for example , the provision for liquidated damages . |
| 12 | Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 13 | At first sight A* , and breadth-first search appear to be quite different : the former tries to keep close to the correct path by comparing costs , the latter blindly and exhaustively explores each level . |
| 14 | The Index Kewensis lists more than 250 species of dodder and while some of these are possibly synonyms of the same species collected from different localities , the dodder appear to be native to all the large temperate and tropical land masses of the world . |
| 15 | And , from the capitalist 's point of view , the workers in the luxury goods producing department appear to be as productive as those engaged in the production of necessary means of consumption or means of production . |
| 16 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | The State Department appears to be in favour of that proposition , whereas the Defence Department is against it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As for the upper jaws , percentage incisor loss appears to be a more sensitive indicator of breakage than molar loss . |
| 28 | Molar loss is confused by taxonomic differences in the prey , but incisor loss appears to be equivalent for all rodent species analysed here . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |