Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] appeared to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 5 | Mr Hill said the murder still appeared to be motiveless . |
| 6 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 7 | The hens also appeared to be very consistent in their decisions , with individual birds choosing the same nest day after day . |
| 8 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 9 | Whereas the Treaty of Rome and the Single European Act both appeared to be at least chiefly concerned with trade and economic cooperation , the Treaty on European Union is involved with almost every policy with which a national government could concern itself . |
| 10 | Protestant churches were not unaffected by the spirit in which the campaign often appeared to be conducted . |
| 11 | The Vietnam War really appeared to be near its end , and the economy , shaken by the rise in world oil prices and the inflation produced by the war , seemed to be on the mend . |
| 12 | The presence of Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique now appeared to be the principal obstacle to a ceasefire , with the MNR demanding their complete withdrawal as a precondition for any such agreement . |
| 13 | Before then , despite a number of chances , this game had nil all written all over it ; United did have their chances , they hit the post , Steve Foster and Martin Foyle both went close but the ball never appeared to be going into the back of the net . |
| 14 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 15 | Johnson recently appeared to be rediscovering his best form after two inauspicious seasons following his return to the track in January 1991 . |
| 16 | Crowds today appeared to be larger than in recent years despite poor weather forecasts . |
| 17 | This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's . |
| 18 | Newspapers sometimes appeared to be providing the rallying cry for future demonstration . |
| 19 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 20 | Although Churchill sometimes appeared to be unhappy about it , planning for the peace was widely accepted as a legitimate political task during the war . |
| 21 | Juliet could n't help thinking how elegant Moira Charles always appeared to be , never a blonde hair out of place , never a crease in her dress . |
| 22 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 23 | ‘ We have begun to lose our confidence in our institutions , the traditions and bodies that constitute a very large part of the national culture — especially in the monarchy which a year ago appeared to be one of the unassailable certainties of British life . ’ |
| 24 | This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited . |
| 25 | This goal too appeared to be self-defeating in the Nikol'skaia volost' . |
| 26 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 27 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 28 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 29 | As the Whigs gradually began to retreat from their erstwhile espousal of populist causes , the Tories increasingly appeared to be the party with more to offer ordinary people . |