Example sentences of "[noun pl] appear [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that is sufficient reason for claiming that postmodern organization forms appear to be implicit in these developments . |
| 2 | Culminations of hanging wall complexes over footwall ramps appear to be promising sites for hydrocarbon accumulation , and are likely to have seismic , gravity , and magnetic expression . |
| 3 | In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA . |
| 4 | The dangers appear to be Readingbased Prince Charming ( 41.90 ) and local open racer Breathless ( 41.99 ) , trained by Gordon Rooks . |
| 5 | Without the foreign currency to service their debts , countries like Ghana , Ivory Coast , Gabon and Senegal face ruin , at a time when IMF-imposed austerity programmes appear to be stimulating social disorder throughout the region . |
| 6 | For TV , he or she will have to analyse the scheduled programmes both of ITV and BBC to determine which ITV programmes appear to be good buys , and which will be poor ones , in relation to the rate card . |
| 7 | The pattern of grouping described here is probably unique to Oxford United 's ground , but analogues of such groups appear to be present at all league club grounds — with the possible exception of some of the very small Fourth Division grounds . |
| 8 | Good readers appear to be those who have good decoding skills and who have practised recognising words until they do not need to think about them . |
| 9 | A hoard of 153 silver cups and one gold cup found at Tôd in Upper Egypt may have come originally from Minoan workshops ; the vessels appear to be Middle Minoan IB work , which was produced in Crete between 2000 and 1900 BC , and were found in an Egyptian deposit which has been dated fairly precisely to about 1920 BC . |
| 10 | O. enopla veterna differs from O. enopla enopla chiefly by the shapes of the disk spinelets and the tentacle scales ; the spinelets appear to be larger in O. enopla enopla and have a better defined crown with distinct points . |
| 11 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 12 | The guidelines appear to be comprehensive and realistic , and should prove effective . |
| 13 | Dogs are particularly vulnerable to this poison , but some snakes appear to be immune . |
| 14 | There are many different varieties of scabetic mite infesting various mammals , and , although the mites from different animals appear to be similar , they are probably species specific because infestation by the mite from domestic animals does not ‘ take ’ in the human and dies out after a few weeks . |
| 15 | But , although many authors appear to be optimistic about technological developments , morally and ethically most seem to be pessimistic . |
| 16 | Asteronyx loveni appears to be widespread in distribution , there being no records from the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Southern Ocean ; the bathymetric range is wide ; from c. 100–4721 m . |
| 17 | The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade . |
| 18 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 19 | Staring at her wordlessly , she noticed that Doreen 's lips appeared to be thinner than usual , and that her eyes held a glitter that betrayed subdued anger . |
| 20 | He said all the animals appeared to be domestic pets which had been dumped in the park , including a couple of angoras . |
| 21 | These new compounds were often specific for a particular kind of leukaemia , and sometimes they were so effective that remissions appeared to be permanent . |
| 22 | If the table suggests that the predators are showing selection ( in other words the columns appear to be different ) , test the likelihood of this using an appropriate statistical test . |
| 23 | The tentacle pores are large and the tube feet appear to be unretractable . |
| 24 | The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s . |
| 25 | The perspective can be to a point at such an elevation that the projection lines appear to be parallel . |
| 26 | In fact , our ‘ middle-class ’ witches appear to be similar to the Canaanites ( see p. 56 ) , whom God roundly condemned . |
| 27 | The ‘ blood and gore ’ witches appear to be strong in the South of England , especially in and around London . |
| 28 | They conclude that ‘ Catalysis of fusion by magnetic monopoles appears to be another non-solution to the solar neutrino problem ’ . |
| 29 | Up in the Hebrides — and in time I would find myself filming mink there , too — the effect of the animals on ground-nesting birds such as common and arctic terns appears to be serious . |
| 30 | Neither the sex nor the strain of donor rats appears to be important ( 18 ) . |