Example sentences of "appear to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 2 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 3 | The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration . |
| 4 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |
| 5 | The two policemen who were shown into his room did not appear to be daunted by this . |
| 6 | Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime . |
| 7 | There would appear to be at least two different reasons why this might be so . |
| 8 | This pattern of findings would appear to be impossible to accommodate from the viewpoint of phenomenology . |
| 9 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 10 | Jean-Marie Balestre , the president of FISA , has pointed out that the regulations permit an immediate ban regardless of any appeal and there would appear to be no further argument on that point . |
| 11 | Such a huge number might appear to be excessive but Sheila Whitaker , the Festival Director , assures film-goers that the quality never wavers . |
| 12 | As an example he cites Europe ; his political passion — just as it would appear to be Mrs Thatcher 's bete noir . |
| 13 | Inside Cambodia , Khmer Rouge guerrillas do not appear to be planning any big offensives against the towns . |
| 14 | It is , perhaps inevitably , some way from the limb-flinging Jackson performances of old , during which , twisting into the microphone , Jackson 's body would appear to be making off in several directions at once . |
| 15 | England 's batsmen looked in decent enough form yesterday on a shirt-front pitch , nor does the heat appear to be causing them undue distress . |
| 16 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 17 | Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down . |
| 18 | Ilmor 's Mario Ilien responded to the apparent inconsistency of these threats by pointing out that Fiat did not appear to be included in the ban — even though it has an official Alfa Romeo CART team , operated by Patrick Racing , competing in the Surfers event . |
| 19 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 20 | Wexford was listening with concentration , but he did not appear to be listening at all . |
| 21 | Therefore , the day-by-day changes in the timing of rhythms seen in the aged do not appear to be due to day-by-day irregularities of habits , and this suggests an internal cause due to the body clock . |
| 22 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 23 | His team would appear to be playing their opponents in reverse of their ranking order . |
| 24 | His team would appear to be playing their opponents in reverse of their ranking order . |
| 25 | Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony — neither do they appear to be in any way neurotic . |
| 26 | The theory would appear to be borne out by his subsequent record : only one further final appearance , at Los Angeles , and eight losses to players ranked below him on the computer . |
| 27 | Yet , now more than ever , force would appear to be the only way of ousting the general , and Syria alone capable of supplying it . |
| 28 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 29 | THERE would appear to be no future in Newcastle United 's courtship of Roy Aitken , the Celtic captain , following yesterday 's disapproval of the affair by Billy McNeill , manager of the Glasgow club . |
| 30 | They actively seek to expand their influence and would appear to be aiming to cover most of west London … the group can be expected to continue in their attempts to undermine the police , but are unlikely to be successful except in conditions of widespread disorder , general strike , etc , when they might have a potential for destabilisation . ’ |