Example sentences of "appear [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they appear to be two-dimensional they suddenly seem less ‘ animal-like ’ and may avoid the unwelcome attentions of a hungry predator . |
| 2 | Sometimes one , possibly two patients , appear to be central to the outbreak and should , if possible , be moved to another setting . |
| 3 | In addition Eleanor and Marie appear to be central figures in a treatise entitled De Amore written by Andrew , a chaplain at the court of Champagne in the early 1180s . |
| 4 | Though many polar invertebrate species appear to be endemic , very little is known of their biology : the liveliest , most prominent and most numerous elements are the arthropods , and these have provided most of what is known on adaptations and ways of life in terrestrial and freshwater environments . |
| 5 | The principal sources of natural oxides of nitrogen appear to be chemical decomposition of nitrates and lightning . |
| 6 | Do the proposed changes appear to be profitable ? |
| 7 | In addition , close scrutiny of any one part of the process quickly reveals additional questions about how such developmental changes take place in the light of what still appear to be impoverished and often infrequent learning opportunities ( Shatz 1983 ) . |
| 8 | So , to the extent that changes in Y t are due to such changes in v t rather than will appear to be unaffected by expected income as we measure it , and therefore we shall obtain an estimate of α 1 which will tend to be less than the true value of α : 1 . |
| 9 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 10 | The tale has added bite if its characters appear to be real , its action plausible , if it could ‘ happen to me ’ . |
| 11 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 12 | The weights are custom-made or ground down Roman coins ; one or two appear to be actual Byzantine weights , or imitations , indicating the extent of exchange networks in the later sixth and seventh centuries in Europe . |
| 13 | A hoard of 153 silver cups and one gold cup found at Tôd in Upper Egypt may have come originally from Minoan workshops ; the vessels appear to be Middle Minoan IB work , which was produced in Crete between 2000 and 1900 BC , and were found in an Egyptian deposit which has been dated fairly precisely to about 1920 BC . |
| 14 | Student Language Use : As many bilingual students in FE appear to be fluent users of English and speak in local accents it is important to alert participants to the fact that they use two or more languages regularly and operate in two cultures in their daily lives . |
| 15 | Thus , the Trinovantes , with their tribal centre at Camulodunon and their neighbours to the west nucleated at Verulamion and Braughing , appear to be recent arrivals to Britain , and more or less contemporary movements had brought others into north and eastern Kent from the Seine Valley . |
| 16 | Many appear to be recent colonists from temperate regions , representing species that have extended their breeding ranges northward or southward in post-glacial times . |
| 17 | The ‘ blood and gore ’ witches appear to be strong in the South of England , especially in and around London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 20 | The guidelines appear to be comprehensive and realistic , and should prove effective . |
| 21 | Many other issues appear to be unresolved . |
| 22 | They represent an elaborate piece of behavioural mimicry and appear to be inborn . |
| 23 | The tentacle pores appear to be medium sized each is armed with a large , leaf shaped tentacle scale which becomes highly rugose on many pores . |
| 24 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 25 | The pattern of grouping described here is probably unique to Oxford United 's ground , but analogues of such groups appear to be present at all league club grounds — with the possible exception of some of the very small Fourth Division grounds . |
| 26 | CREB and ATF1 appear to be present at similar levels in immunoprecipitates obtained with the CREB antibody ( lane 2 ) suggesting that most of the CREB is in the form of a heterodimer with ATF1 . |
| 27 | Interestingly , German managers whilst not showing any difference in their feelings of physical health , did show superior psychological health compared to their British counterparts , and these appear to be due to their more frequently and effectively using stress-coping techniques such as ‘ social support ’ , ‘ task strategies ’ , ‘ time ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 28 | Fragments of Norman mouldings in the tower walls appear to be re-used material from an earlier building . |
| 29 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 30 | At a time when American art is preoccupied with a whole range of new issues , does Rosenthal 's historical survey appear to be predictable , conventional and , perhaps in retrospect , wrong ? |