Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] appear to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for McHale appears to be the lack of backing from Toyota Ireland , although he is reluctant to discuss it . |
| 2 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 3 | The latter part of March appears to be something of an uphill battle , and no doubt you will continue to feel nonplussed because of others ' outrageous demands over finances or business associations . |
| 4 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 5 | The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population . |
| 6 | The shift in ranking of preferences appears to be related to social class . |
| 7 | The prevalence of predation appears to be correlated with the relative lack of seasonality , for , in temperate countries , winters prevent a good deal of predation . |
| 8 | THE tiny Pyrenean principality of Andorra appeared to be heading for a ‘ yes ’ vote yesterday on a new constitution to reform a rule run largely on feudal lines . |
| 9 | In such cases a number of craftsmen appear to be working together ( to the exclusion of others ) on a number of sites and pavements . |
| 10 | The subscriber speaks into his telephone , and the process of tapping appears to be carried out by Post Office officials making recordings , with Post Office apparatus on Post Office premises , of the electrical impulses on Post Office wires provided by Post Office electricity . |
| 11 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 12 | The development of this type of rift appears to be related to the crustal extension that occurs , as a result of continental collision , beyond the immediate collision zone itself . |
| 13 | Word of mouth appeared to be the most common method of learning about training . |
| 14 | For field staff , however , a review which led to the relaxation of a large number of consents appeared to be in direct contradiction to their efforts ostensibly to bring all dischargers into compliance — ‘ trying to fiddle the books for when the Act comes into force ’ as a northern authority officer put it . |
| 15 | But this source of help appears to be receding . |
| 16 | The bone of contention appears to be the cost involved in stabilising the rock . |
| 17 | In the late eighteenth century the economy of Spain appeared to be on the move . |
| 18 | In Asia the number of refugees appeared to be relatively stable with Pakistan still housing an estimated 3,300,000 Afghan refugees . |
| 19 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 20 | By the end of April the main issue of disagreement appeared to be the choice of venue for the talks , Chissano having proposed Malawi or Zimbabwe , with the MNR insisting on a meeting in Nairobi . |
| 21 | A diminutive figure of Minerva appears to be directing operations from the rear . |
| 22 | Livestock grazing levels are moderate ; fertilisers are used but uncommonly ; drainage of wetlands appears to be very unusual and there are climatic and pedological restrictions on ploughing and reseeding of grasslands . |
| 23 | With the passage of time the contribution that these families made to the total genetic diversity of the population became subordinate to the seedling recruits : although the number of seedlings appears to be very small , their contribution to the total number of genetic individuals in the population is clearly significant in determining the number of clones or genets that are present . |
| 24 | There are interim solutions , such as trade restrictions against Japan , but GM 's approach of granting some job security along with a gradual introduction of robots appears to be more constructive . |
| 25 | The rise and fall of governments appeared to be a private arrangement , comfortably thrashed out among a selection of small Balkan states , vaguely situated , acknowledging no relationships outside the domestic circle . |
| 26 | Rather , groups of structures appear to be acquired in set orders across a population of speakers " ( p. 103 ) . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |
| 28 | the system of Advisers of Studies appears to be under stress and may not be sufficiently robust to meet the demands of increasing student numbers and course complexity . |
| 29 | As we shall see , much of the early response from sociology wanted to off-load the epistemological ‘ freight ’ that the sociology of knowledge appeared to be carrying . |
| 30 | The more organized the body of knowledge appears to be , the more distinct its academic identity , and the more likely it is to be called a ‘ discipline ’ . |