Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] appears to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Is the Secretary of State aware that the United States still appears to be at war with Vietnam and that it is blocking all aid and trade in the International Monetary Fund and World bank and through misuse of the COCOM regulations ?
2 The result also appears to be a vindication of his gamble to delay the election until almost the last moment in the hope that signs of economic recovery would persuade voters to give him a mandate .
3 The focusing of consciousness often appears to be concerned with the attempted resolution of unfinished business .
4 The overall impression resulting from these findings is that emergency services specifically designed for potential attempters might be of benefit to some , but the impulsive nature of the act , and the fact that the attempt often appears to be carried out with a particular purpose not related to help-seeking , but aimed at someone in close proximity , reduces the chances of preventing suicide attempts by this method alone .
5 The dilemma is worse still in that religion often appears to be inextricably and centrally involved in the perpetration of crime and the proliferation of human misery and damage to the environment .
6 The falsificationist now appears to be reaching a tentative solution to his problem , although he does not consider himself to have proved by experiment how bats avoid collisions while flying .
7 The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations .
8 Gorer , in his 1970 study of sex in England carried out on behalf of the Opinion Research Centre remarks that , " England still appears to be a very chaste society " .
9 The point of contention now appears to be how institutions may be affected .
10 Brenda here appears to be accommodating to her brother by using Creole .
11 The Church test therefore appears to be broad and readily fulfilled , but the phrase ‘ some harm … albeit not serious harm ’ has been construed restrictively in one sense .
12 The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm .
13 The hair of Oceanus also appears to be styled on the same matted locks which comprise the lion 's main at Verulamium .
14 The role of the accountant also appears to be a mystery .
15 As a result of these measures , the river dolphin population now appears to be stabilising and even increasing , but the dolphin is still extremely vulnerable and needs continued surveillance at both national and international levels .
16 Fergie is understood to have been offered a lump sum and a handsome yearly allowance of around Pounds 150,000 but the sticking point now appears to be the extent of Andrew 's access to their two children Beatrice and Eugenie .
17 The rationale for intervention then appears to be the degree of error .
18 The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm .
19 Rainbow and Clint ( OK , her name now appears to be Annie ; that 's all we know so far ) are getting on a treat .
20 The conservative majority on the Court now appears to be attacking the central core of the New Deal , and the President responded by calling on Congress to pass a series of important new measures .
21 Among them , Jean Fraser with her Celestial Bodies calls upon the services of two nuns and a nude female to help recreate Manet 's famous Dejeuner sur l'Herbe , while Deborah Bright makes her point by interpolating an ambivalent , bisexual figure into a number of famous film stills so that what was originally a one to one male/ female relationship now appears to be a menage-a-trois .
22 Dismantling a number was more demanding : The main difficulty factor here appears to be the need to see a number as made up of place value components rather than viewing numbers as a complete entity .
23 It is profitable to consider another pavement ( the Great Witcombe mosaic ) in regard to the two Leicester mosaics , but the evidence for further , unitary , affinity here appears to be less convincing .
24 He is ambitious , but rebellion of any overt kind now appears to be out .
25 Some , at least , of the variation within the white clover populations thus appears to be directly interpretable in terms of attributes contributing to present fitness .
26 Somehow what is left of Beaufort conspires to embody these political and religious transitions ; when the mists lie in the valleys of southern Lebanon , the remaining walls can be glimpsed above the clouds , but because of the peculiar geography of the place — because the ravines and wadis fold in uneven formation and in odd directions — Beaufort always appears to be in a different location , its broken ramparts a nightmare denture which eludes every contour and coordinate .
27 So just as electric charge is ‘ universal ’ in that all particles have charges that are multiples of e , the weak coupling also appears to be universal .
28 Comparable irregularity also appears to be the rule at Ashton in the area west of the modern Oundle to Peterborough road , though the excavated area is dominated by a single main road with several side-lanes , and in the evidence visible at the problematical sites of Dragonby and Kirmington .
29 The Commission 's latest strategy now appears to be to devise origin rules which focus on the transfer of technology , since a local content ratio of 80 per cent can still allow Japanese producers to hang on to key technological processes .
30 Although it was originally IBM 's idea , Hewlett-Packard now appears to be taking the lead — but the inclusion of other companies such as SunSoft Inc and Novell Inc is far from assured .
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