Example sentences of "they appear to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As they are only small they appear to be quite light , but seem to hold an edge and time can only tell how quickly they wear out . |
| 2 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 3 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 4 | They continue to grow in size and influence and they appear to be still some way from peaking . |
| 5 | In fact , according to lawyers , the new courts are little different to the ones they replace , but they appear to be generally welcomed . |
| 6 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 7 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 8 | Catholicism , for centuries , allied itself with conservative forces opposed to progress but now that elements within the church have come out in favour of change , they appear to be opting for a more socialist , rather than capitalist , line . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 10 | They are shaped like giant kingfishers and in the sunlight they appear to be golden . |
| 11 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 12 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 13 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 14 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 15 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 16 | It will be interesting to see how discussions over ‘ efficiency ’ in schools develop and whether they appear to be useful ! |
| 17 | At least 17 of these ‘ cancer genes ’ have been identified , and in every case they appear to be identical or very similar to normal genes found in the chromosomes of healthy cells . |
| 18 | If they appear to be two-dimensional they suddenly seem less ‘ animal-like ’ and may avoid the unwelcome attentions of a hungry predator . |
| 19 | They appear to be in a catatonic state , but this is deceptive because they may then suddenly bite the hand that holds them . |
| 20 | I have selected these six passages because they appear to me to call effectively for a rethinking of practically every aspect of the pre-1967 school curriculum in Tanzania — its underlying values , the structure , the balance between in-school and out-of-school activities , the content and pacing of the materials in relation to the age of the learners and the whole process and attitude towards evaluation . |
| 21 | While doing this they appear to be lost in pleasure and increasingly unaware of the world around them . |
| 22 | Its name refers to the fact that its ears are folded forwards so that , from the front , they appear to be horizontal in general shape , rather than vertical . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the attractions of younger men is that they appear to be less traditional than the older generation . |
| 24 | The dorsal and anal fins of both male and female are a light burgundy to purple at the base , darkening at the outside , and they appear to be covered in small iridescent blue spots that are particularly striking under the right light . |
| 25 | Afterwards they appear to be the best of friends again . |
| 26 | And yes , they appear to be substantiated . |
| 27 | It must be accepted that although the above findings relate mainly to electrical forces they form part of an interactive system involving also chemical , pressure-volume , gravitational and other environmental factors , and as such they appear to be under the influence of one basic energy field — whatever it might be termed . |
| 28 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 29 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 30 | However that is not how they appear to the characters , or to the reader whose attention has lapsed ( as whose does not ? ) . |