Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a species is allowed to become extinct , however insignificant it may have appeared to be , that is one potential medication lost to mankind for ever . |
| 2 | In the confined environment of pre-school life the infant may have appeared to be progressing normally , and it may not be until an objective screening test is given that the sight problem is recognised . |
| 3 | " By differential reinforcement of responses an individual can be led to make finer and finer distinctions among what originally may have appeared to be very similar stimuli . " |
| 4 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 5 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 6 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |
| 7 | To someone living in Sao Paulo he would have appeared to be crying for no reason at all . |
| 8 | Thus , if the ten students had been given additional tuition , however ineffective , it would have appeared to be of benefit . |