Example sentences of "it appear to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only very superficially does it appear to be significant . |
| 2 | It appears to be futile in that inevitably one finds oneself conceiving something else . |
| 3 | The pathogenesis of this finding is not known but it appears to be unrelated to any effect of the diabetic state on platelet prostacyclin receptors as prostacyclin binding appears to be normal in diabetic platelets ( Shepherd et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Explicitly or implicitly , the various theories treat aggression as an absolute discrete ‘ thing ’ , which , when it appears to be absent in a particular society , has somehow to be accounted for . |
| 5 | whereas the white line is But if you look into the headlights it can be not dark erm but it appears to be dark because |
| 6 | There are numerous definitions of the term ‘ project ’ , but it appears to be impossible to find a good one . |
| 7 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 8 | It appears to be inner East Belfast ( Ballymacarrett ) that provides the model for working-class speech in the city ( L. Milroy , ( 1980 ) , 1987 ) ; this is represented by the ( relatively ) fully employed Protestant population of East Belfast . |
| 9 | The olive tree lives to a very great age ; it appears to be indestructible , sending out shoots from a distorted , dry , and seemingly lifeless trunk , reviving annually to bring forth its fruit . |
| 10 | It appears to be worthwhile to give some historical background to the statutes to be considered . |
| 11 | It looks very like a small gorilla and though it appears to be tailless , like an ape , it is in fact a monkey , closely related to the macaques . |
| 12 | It appears to be contrary to what the Criminal Law Revision Committee and Parliament intended when they established " dishonesty " in the 1968 Act . |
| 13 | Consistent with this observation , LTP in mossy fibres is not blocked by the NMDA antagonist AP5 ( ref. 163 ) ; moreover , it appears to be nonassociative . |
| 14 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 15 | One feature of the genetic decoding mechanism is that it appears to be irreversible . |
| 16 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 17 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 18 | Allowing suppliers representatives to control stocks is liable to misuse even if it appears to be attractive |
| 19 | It appears to be unlikely that reduced hydration in the minor groove plays a major role in destabilising the duplexes used in this study , although removal of bound water may be more significant in sequences containing more contiguous A-T base pairs . |
| 20 | That is not to claim that illus.1 wholly corresponds to what was used in 1790 , or even 1806 : but on the other hand , it appears to be plausible in the light of these important contemporary writers . |
| 21 | " The custom of disguising reality so that it appeared to be perfect " had long been the tactic of the Franco regime . |
| 22 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 23 | It appeared to be empty . |
| 24 | At first it appeared to be empty , but then , on the dappled ground , I saw a rock python . |
| 25 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 26 | It appeared to be British and was probably one of the highly mobile units known as Jock ’ columns which were used to carry out harassing attacks on the German flanks . |