Example sentences of "[art] [noun] appeared to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tide appeared to be shifting back to this higher test for in two cases ( at least ) the courts expressly adopted that criteria and disapproved of Lord Hewart C.J. 's formulation . |
| 2 | Another case in which the courts appeared to be in conflict with ministers was Gouriet v. Union of Post Office Workers , in which the plaintiff sought an order from the court to restrain the defendant trade union from breaking the law by refusing to handle mail to South Africa . |
| 3 | All of the birds appeared to be heading towards a high headland far across on the other side of the bay and , according to our map , this headland was called Fuglafjell — ‘ bird mountain' . |
| 4 | If it aimed at the point where the insect appeared to be , it would miss . |
| 5 | I can also say that morale in these teams , at the time I had contact with the projects appeared to be considerably higher than in comparable teams in more orthodox services . |
| 6 | The conflict was that ‘ the drug appeared to be retained much longer in the bodies of the patients in Basingstoke ( Dista 's British headquarters ) than in the patients in Indianapolis ’ . |
| 7 | The bombs appeared to be part of a renewed IRA campaign in London . |
| 8 | His ‘ open door ’ to the West appeared to be closing , and the taste for the Western way of life was firmly discouraged . |
| 9 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 10 | Fagin produced some beer , and as the fight appeared to be over , everybody sat down . |
| 11 | Kelly noticed that , while the trainer and his wife were looking proudly at their horse , the stranger appeared to be more interested in her . |
| 12 | Ruth turned back to the fifth-floor window as the stranger appeared to be heading her way . |
| 13 | He said all the animals appeared to be domestic pets which had been dumped in the park , including a couple of angoras . |
| 14 | The panel sat mesmerized until it slowly began to dawn that the applicant appeared to be suffering from the old Fleet Street problem of being tired and emotional . |
| 15 | Further research studies confirmed the earlier picture of West Indian pupils ' underachievement , on average , compared with Asian and white pupils , but showed that the gap appeared to be diminishing significantly as time passed . |
| 16 | The growers appeared to be facing ruin until one bright spark hit on an idea . |
| 17 | This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality . |
| 18 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 19 | The host club 's third goal was somewhat controversial , as the Scots appeared to be wrongly penalised when the umpire awarded Berlin a penalty corner . |
| 20 | But the loneliness appeared to be over when , in October , TODAY exclusively revealed she had wed husband number four during a trip to Norway where she was also reunited with Nicolas after 10 years . |
| 21 | If the world outside the window appeared to be her own dear and familiar one , then she would risk opening the door and going out . |
| 22 | The Princess appeared to be at pains to avoid sensationalism as she declined to specify the abuses that the federation is aiming to stamp out . |
| 23 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 24 | The motives appeared to be mixture of low living standards in China , the prospect of personal advancement and gain overseas and also patriotic sentiments . |
| 25 | By contrast to its growing enmity with Inkatha , the ANC appeared to be moving towards a new accommodation with the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , originally formed in 1958 as a breakaway from the ANC . |
| 26 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 27 | Certainly the judge appeared to be confused . |
| 28 | The Chancellor appeared to be unmoved by the appeals from some of his party faithful , preferring to claim that his actions were in the country 's long term interest . |
| 29 | The session appeared to be dominated by consideration of economic problems in particular . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state . |