Example sentences of "[det] [noun] appeared to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a sadness in Orkney that religion appeared to be an element in the story . |
| 2 | Yet no part of this extravaganza appeared to be derelict . |
| 3 | These featured the abolition of the post of general secretary and its replacement by that of party chairman ( this proposal appeared to be the basis of a rumour broadcast by the United States television network CNN on Jan. 30 , producing a brief panic in world financial markets , that Gorbachev was about to resign ) ; replacement of the politburo with a new body more broadly representative of the Soviet Union 's federal structure ; and reduction in the size of the central committee , which would become a permanent working body . |
| 4 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 5 | This group appeared to be opposed to both Mobutu and the leadership of the Sacred Union , calling for a new generation to take control of Zaïrean politics . |
| 6 | Three of the four previous league clashes between the clubs had ended goalless , and this game appeared to be heading the same way . |
| 7 | Three of the four previous league clashes between the clubs had ended goalless , and this game appeared to be heading the same way . |
| 8 | The NPFL had earlier agreed that its representative would form part of a triumvirate of vice-presidents under an independent interim president , but this arrangement appeared to be stillborn . |
| 9 | This analysis appeared to be substantiated by the small size of the proletariat in most Latin American countries , and by the agrarian and peasant character of the Mexican revolution . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was in retreat last night after some ministers appeared to be winning their battles for an increase in their budgets . |
| 11 | This sentiment appeared to be accurately echoed in the terms of reference of the enquiry into primary school methods which were announced by the Secretary of State in December 1991 . |
| 12 | The numbers of state bureaucrats and managerial staff in industry and agriculture were reduced because these institutions appeared to be developing as centres of opposition to the party ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 34 ) . |
| 13 | At first these efforts appeared to be paying off . |
| 14 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 15 | Gorbachev 's response to these developments appeared to be twofold , so far as foreign policy was concerned . |
| 16 | The revolution was here at last , and social commentators spoke with alarm about the march of freedom , and said the youth of all nations appeared to be abandoning traditional values to embark on journeys into the unknown , pushing out into previously unexplored and destructive avenues of life . |
| 17 | A quick glance at the data reveals that very few subjects , particularly on the first repetition , were behaving in this fashion ; indeed , many subjects appeared to be behaving in a manner one might like to describe as myopic . |
| 18 | All children appeared to be treated by all the adults with equal and , by our standards , highly indulgent affection . |
| 19 | Each block appeared to be complete in itself and all were identical . |
| 20 | The smoke I 'd seen earlier was from a bricked-in fire under a cauldron , in which more garments appeared to be bubbling . |
| 21 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 22 | His own duties appeared to be limited to joining his patrons in a drink whenever he was thirsty , which seemed to be often . |
| 23 | In the hot debate that followed , the benefits of fuel efficiency and alternative renewable energies sources were argued persuasively by one of the acknowledged international experts in the field , but neither minister appeared to be actually listening to Amory Lovins of the American Rocky Mountain Institute . |
| 24 | The sun lit the drops and sparkled in sharp bursts of white light ; but some of the drops caught and fractured the light so that Comfort appeared to be the source of a million tiny rainbows . |