Example sentences of "as it appear " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred . |
| 2 | Here then was the world as it appeared to Paisley . |
| 3 | Just as it appeared that political compromise would prevail , both Mr Yeltsin and Mr Kravchuk have allowed nationalists in their camp to take the initiative , partly to divert attention from domestic troubles . |
| 4 | At least Stoke-by-Nayland is still almost as it appeared to Constable 's eye . |
| 5 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 6 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 7 | The most important of these , at least as it appeared to those involved , was the discovery of sea-floor spreading , which was transformed from a brave conception to a probability in 1963 . |
| 8 | Deftly he dissected each cranial nerve as it appeared , cut through the detaining tentorium then reached down low beyond the foramen magnum to divide the spinal cord . |
| 9 | First , Carol Dare 's story as it appeared in our church magazine : |
| 10 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 11 | Suddenly , Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner . |
| 12 | During this period , most commodity prices fell about a third , rates of interest dwindled to vanishing point ( as it appeared to those who remembered the inflationary middle decades of the century ) , and banking and commercial disasters multiplied . |
| 13 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 14 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |
| 15 | With this drop of ink at the end of my pen , I will show you the roomy workshop of Jonathan surge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the 18th of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 . |
| 16 | What is peculiarly novelistic about George Eliot 's opening gambit is its pseudo-documentary specificity — the proper names and the date : ‘ the roomy workshop of Jonathan Burge , carpenter and builder in the village of Hayslope , as it appeared on the lath of June , in the year of Our Lord , 1799 ’ . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as it appeared to have popular support from within the hobby , more detailed information was needed before reacting any further . |
| 18 | She imagined a steel splint inside her giraffe neck , and felt the pain as it appeared inside her unfamiliar flesh . |
| 19 | Nothing was as it appeared to be with him . |
| 20 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 21 | There was no mention anywhere of Morpurgo or Mrs Diamond by name , nor hint in anything Harry read that all was not as it appeared to be . |
| 22 | I enclose a photograph of the display as it appeared at the National Library of Scotland ; obviously the cases are not part of the touring display . |
| 23 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 24 | ‘ I was asking whether you were meeting — ’ bawled Morse to no avail , as it appeared . |
| 25 | Downes , as it appeared , had read the situation adequately , and was expecting to accompany the policemen — well , somewhere ! and he opened the driver 's door of the Metro once more . |
| 26 | If the going wage rate was ‘ wrong ’ , as it appeared to be , what stood in the way of its downward revision ? |
| 27 | A totem , for example , can be described first as it appears , then as an object which has stylised figures in the sculpture . |
| 28 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 29 | Aachen Cathedral ( opposite ) as it appears today is built around Charlemagne 's original chapel and the city still bears the French name of Aix-la-Chapelle . |
| 30 | The fitting of the V8 SDI unit is not as straight forward as it appears |