Example sentences of "in what appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE new South African administration of President F.W. de Klerk is holding talks across a wide spectrum of political opinion in what appears to be a fresh effort towards constitutional reform . |
| 2 | Frighten or surprise one and it will stiffen and keel over in what appears to be a dead faint . |
| 3 | Young Charles Frederick , photographed while still in his teens , seems generally ill-at-ease as he poses in what appears to be a borrowed long coat . |
| 4 | Gyalpo , a Buddhist monk in his 20s from the Drepung monastery in Lhasa , was killed by police forces in what appears to be an extra-judicial execution , when he was at the head of a peaceful demonstration in support of Tibetan independence on 10 December 1988 . |
| 5 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 6 | In what appears to be the start of a long overdue shake-up at Kleinwort Benson , the British merchant banking group 's chief executive , Jonathan Agnew , is leaving . |
| 7 | CSRG , in what appears to be a form letter over the signature of CSRG team member Marshall Kirk McKusick , made written representations to BSDI on April 30 , 1991 that Berkeley software ‘ may be freely redistributed … ’ and ‘ requires no previous licence , either from AT&T or The Regents of the University of California . ’ |
| 8 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 9 | When certain preparations of liquids containing small particles are examined under a microscope the particles are found to joggle around in what appears to be a random fashion . |
| 10 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 11 | In what appears to be an attempt to make sense of this , Hezarfen adds ( " in his place " ) between steps three and four so that it appears in his account that Molla Arab succeeded Abdulkerim . |
| 12 | So indigenization can actually create the conditions for a transnational capitalist class in what appears to be the most unfruitful soil . |
| 13 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 14 | Even in what appear to be straightforward motor skills the changes in learning are associated with greater selectivity and more economical use of the evidence needed to guide performance . |
| 15 | In the same inning , Carney Lansford grounded to shortstop , in what appeared to be an inning-ending double-play with the bases loaded . |
| 16 | Ex-president Nixon came to Beijing at the end of October , in what appeared to be a fence-mending expedition which backfired . |
| 17 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |
| 18 | Squawking madly in what appeared to be a family squabble over the direction they should take , they suddenly closed ranks , as if by order , and formed a perfect vee behind their leader . |
| 19 | Two other people were killed in what appeared to be a guerrilla attack . |
| 20 | The door was open and just inside Marcus was sitting on a chair , wrapped in what appeared to be a cloak or ulster , wearing a tweed hat and holding a stick in his hand . |
| 21 | Another figure wrapped in what appeared to be netting hung with little bells , beat netted fists against a cottage door whilst squashed , lumpen faces leered behind upper windows . |
| 22 | The grazie that escaped from her was barely audible and as she lowered her eyes in what appeared to be a motion of submission Sandison suddenly felt small and mean and condescending . |
| 23 | There on the green plateau , glistening in the sunshine , was a collection of various types of aircraft , mainly in what appeared to be first class condition . |
| 24 | Possibly the shock of feeling hard spikes in what appeared to be a soft , yielding morsel of food would be enough to make some predators think twice , but this is not particularly convincing . |
| 25 | Clearly , concern for children in what appeared to be less than propitious circumstances could be misplaced . |
| 26 | His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 27 | Yet there was smoke and steam and human figures dressed in what appeared to be deep sea fishermen 's bad weather gear , yellow oilies and wellies . |
| 28 | Human figures dressed in what appeared to be deep sea fishermen 's bad weather gear , yellow oilies and wellies work on the boiler of Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd 0-6-0T ( Works No. 7846 or 1953 ) No. 3 ‘ North Downs ’ at the Stone Lodge depot of the North Downs Steam Railway . |
| 29 | There was little further public interest in what appeared to be just another statistic . |
| 30 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |