Example sentences of "[adv] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 2 | It is startling when things and people suddenly appear without being heard , particularly when you believe yourself to be alone in a room . |
| 3 | And whenever he was with people , he mustered his energies together to appear to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 4 | The Astropath must suddenly appear to be possessed — with lethal consequences . |
| 5 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 6 | Indeed they do not only appear to be immoral , but dishonest as well . |
| 7 | The flow front appears as a mass of rounded pillows , disappearing into the blue haze of the Pacific , all appears to be motionless . |
| 8 | Only in the most narrow sense is dramatic experience direct : one way of putting it is that drama is not itself direct , it only appears to be . |
| 9 | However , there only appears to be one reported case since Bolam where this has occurred ( Hucks v Cole ( 1968 ) 112 Sol Jo 483 ) . |
| 10 | Less appears to be known about whether his mood swings were severe enough to justify manic-depression as a primary diagnosis ; but Smart himself gives us some clue when he writes : ‘ For I have a greater compass of mirth and melancholy than another . ’ |
| 11 | They had all appeared to be like men when they were sixteen , especially Mick . |
| 12 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 13 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 14 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 15 | Yes I hope so appeared to be . |
| 16 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 17 | Workers generally appear to be anxious about poor organisation , management , and resourcing for community care . |
| 18 | Various factors thus appear to be at the root of the inner city problem , many of them similar in nature to those behind the problems underlying the North-South divide . |
| 19 | There thus appear to be two relationships between subjective risk and memory in driving . |
| 20 | South facing rooms which already appear to be warmer due to the extra light can more easily accommodate cooler shades such as pale blue . |
| 21 | Tiberius Minnows meanwhile appear to be moving more to the rock end of their pop/rock equation — although not always entirely convincingly . |
| 22 | Edwards does relate the socialisation patterns of speakers to their Patois competence : " The degree of speakers " integration into the black community as measured by their network score would thus appear to be the most important determinant of their Patois competence . |
| 23 | There would thus appear to be some scope for policy activism , but , on further inspection , it turns out to be very limited indeed . |
| 24 | If you switch sides , the characters , judging by their eyelines , will no longer appear to be looking at each other . |
| 25 | Indeed the general levels of performance in road sign recall tasks appear to be extremely poor , even in tasks which would superficially appear to be relatively easy . |
| 26 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 27 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 28 | Such an assumption is strong enough that when one comes across a response that is apparently irrelevant ( as ( ii ) overtly appears to be ) , an inference is triggered that would preserve the assumption of relevance . |
| 29 | The old relationship between prices in the London area and elsewhere appears to be reasserting itself . |
| 30 | In it , Gedge finally appears to be exorcising ghosts , and more poignantly , banishing his own first rejection to the lyrical out-tray . |