Example sentences of "we appear to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever state we appear to be in , the players will be raising their game , ’ Ryan said . |
| 2 | In this process the danger is that we destroy the inner reality of that which we appear to be preserving . |
| 3 | We appear to be in the cosmopolitan city world of the uprooted . |
| 4 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 5 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |
| 6 | ‘ We appear to be in some sort of glass box , ’ said the Thing . |
| 7 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 8 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 9 | As the workforce becomes more skilled , and professional , we appear to be producing more and more individuals seeking autonomy , creativity and growth . |
| 10 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |
| 11 | If we appear to be unable to do without families , then they must be beneficial for us . |
| 12 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 13 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 14 | At this early point in the 1990s , we appear to be on the edge of ‘ something ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ But since then our League form has slumped and we appear to be suffering a confidence problem ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We appear to be cut off and the look of the whole area is old fashioned . |
| 18 | understand why all the agencies involved identify four in those circumstances I think in R A Southern Water district to themselves , because we 've got that information repeated across the county erm and it seemed to me important that erm somebody er accepted responsibility for taking an overall view of the circumstances to er merely because of course we can only concern ourselves with manmade er circumstances rather than er erm but I think you know members would agree that as a strategic planning authority , we appear to be the only auth er the only body which can erm in the cold light of day we view the circumstances look at the implications for strategic planning and local planning and the suggestion of those developments and obviously that would be a concern to us and er I felt and I have to that it is an area of responsibility erm which er within the of this |
| 19 | Now we appear to be engaged in a business venture with the threat of a take-over . ’ |
| 20 | And not least because after an era of relative restraint in 15-cert films , we appear to be returning to the near glorification of casual sexual encounters . |
| 21 | we appear to be the most consistent pub in the area , with er customers and what have you . |
| 22 | We ought to be seeking to build on the quite hopeful developments , in the greater Beirut area anyway , over the last few days , but instead we appear to be getting even more dog in the manger in our attitude towards Syria . |