Example sentences of "appear [prep] be the good " in BNC.

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1 Afterwards they appear to be the best of friends again .
2 As for the other Britons , Niall MacKenzie — who has loads of experience in this sphere — would appear to be the best , but the North West 200 promoters will be looking for a good result from Kevin Mitchell who is one of their key men for the May meeting at Portstewart .
3 The latter would appear to be the better view , since those who are ‘ likely to deal ’ would be the general public .
4 This describes a situation in which a monopoly appears to be the best structure for an industry , and is called a natural monopoly .
5 The independent project organization appears to be the best approach from a social point of view .
6 In the short term this brute force approach appears to be the best method of incorporating linguistic knowledge into computers .
7 The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had .
8 The tendency in the Council therefore was to seek a sufficient measure of ‘ self-validation ’ to enable institutional progress to be made , but to marry it with the protection of the external validation system which appeared to be the best defence of hard-won standards .
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