Example sentences of "[det] [noun] appear to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 2 | There was a sadness in Orkney that religion appeared to be an element in the story . |
| 3 | On closer inspection , however , that mandate appears to be distinctly fragile . |
| 4 | THIS STORY appears to be told by Ingulph , Abbot of Crowland Abbey , 1075–1109 , in his Crowland History . |
| 5 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 6 | Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 7 | This criterion appears to be fulfilled by a monodisperse suspension of fluorescein-coated carboxylated latex microparticles ( yellow green Fluoresbrite ; 0.2 μm particle diameter ) ( 13 ) . |
| 8 | Yet no part of this extravaganza appeared to be derelict . |
| 9 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 10 | Dogs are particularly vulnerable to this poison , but some snakes appear to be immune . |
| 11 | For the low risk junctions , however , this result appears to be completely reversed , the high risk exemplars have a slightly lower number of hits than the less risky ones and considerably more false alarms , this corresponds to a higher P(A) for the least risky exemplars . |
| 12 | Notice , moreover , that this philosophy appears to be in harmony , at least in principle , with that of animal welfare and , adding certain plausible assumptions , anti-cruelty . |
| 13 | They were 99.9 per cent refused on the grounds of the traffic access and this plan appears to be the answer , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 15 | German racing as I 've mentioned before in this column appears to be all the rage and there is a big meeting at Baden Baden today with John Oxx featured . |
| 16 | German racing as I 've mentioned before in this column appears to be all the rage and there is a big meeting at Baden Baden today with John Oxx featured . |
| 17 | The development of this zone appears to be related to the major underthrusting and associated metamorphism of local rocks that has apparently occurred along the Main Central Thrust some 100–200 km to the south of the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone . |
| 18 | Most keys of this type appear to be marked in this way , with a varying numbers of Xs used to aid identification . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This difference appears to be a clear reflection of the traditional lack of political sophistication amongst Black-Earth peasants . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As with Aplysia , a key player in this process appears to be calcium ions . |
| 23 | Although the number of older people living in institutions is small the prevalence of dementia among this population appears to be high ( see below ) . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , children between the ages of six months and three and a half years appear to be often adversely affected by hospital admissions lasting longer than one week , or by repeated admissions . |
| 25 | However , the main underpinning causes of this erosion appear to be methods of management and land tenure rather than erosivity and erodibility ( section 6.2.2 ) , especially as sugar-cane provides a protective cover for most of the year . |
| 26 | Christianson ( in press ) argues that the number on the victim 's football jersey in the study by Loftus and Burns ( 1982 ) is a peripheral detail , however , in his own study ( Christianson & Loftus , 1991 ) the colour of the victim 's coat is regarded as a central detail , this distinction appears to be essentially arbitrary . |
| 27 | This room appears to be bare and innocuous , with a door to the south , but as soon as one character steps through the east-facing door , all the adventurers find themselves drawn into the Bonefield . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Apart from Bursa and Edirne , which constitute special cases and are dealt with in detail in the following chapters , the city for which there is the earliest reliable information concerning a continuous official muftilik of some importance appears to be Amasya , to the muftilik of which Ali Cemâlî , later Mufti of Istanbul , was appointed by Bayezid II in 888/1483–4 ( ? ) with the not inconsiderable salary of 30 akce a day . |
| 30 | This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback , but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope 's taste . |