Example sentences of "what [adv] appear [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two basic reasons for the apparent anomalies in what generally appears to be a steady expansion of the vineyard area : first , the uprooting of old , commercially non-productive vines ; and second , the decimation of large patches of vines due to natural causes like frost , hail , disease , pests , etc . |
| 2 | In addition , close scrutiny of any one part of the process quickly reveals additional questions about how such developmental changes take place in the light of what still appear to be impoverished and often infrequent learning opportunities ( Shatz 1983 ) . |
| 3 | In the consideration given to the new policy , the position of the CNAA inevitably came under scrutiny , particularly what now appeared to be the permanent and powerful role it would develop in relation to the formally established public sector . |
| 4 | Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader from 1923 , included Cecil in his Government partly , no doubt , to help secure pro-League opinion in what increasingly appeared to be the key question of electoral politics : how to compete with Labour for the ex-Liberal vote . |
| 5 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 6 | In addition , the rapid expansion of Christian churches in parts of the Third World ( contrasting very markedly with what sometimes appears to be a steady decline in the west ) has led those churches increasingly to feel the need not merely to copy the styles of life , worship and theology developed in western Christianity , but to develop others appropriate to their own setting . |
| 7 | Cash crop exports are politically ‘ safe ’ in the sense that hard currency earnings allow Third World governments to buy in cheap grain to feed their urban populations , and relieve them of the problems of ensuring adequate food supplies from what sometimes appears to be a permanently disgruntled peasantry . |
| 8 | Thus , what initially appeared to be a reasonably-sized oil discovery was downgraded to the point of being uneconomic , largely because of the influence of anhydrite cementation . |
| 9 | The problems of the here and now can be accepted , not as obstacles to our task but as the task itself , and what previously appeared to be massive impediments to effective support work can simply become our new challenge . |
| 10 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |