Example sentences of "appear [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting concludes with an A1 race in which the leading candidates appear to be Jan Little 's Wath Snowy and Williams ' highly-rated youngster Arfur Daley . |
| 2 | Other authors have recently cultured sarcoid skin lesions and grown mycobacteria that on sequencing appear to be M avium spp . |
| 3 | Here too the most common solutions appear to be women doctors and black doctors , albeit organised in collectives rather than on entrepreneurial , bureaucratic or capitalist lines . |
| 4 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 5 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ These cylinders appear to be World War Two ordnance which had been dumped . |
| 6 | In one incident in Alexandra , gunmen appearing to be Inkatha supporters slaughtered 15 mourners at a funeral , including seven members of the pro-ANC Congress of South African Students ( COSAS ) . |
| 7 | As an example he cites Europe ; his political passion — just as it would appear to be Mrs Thatcher 's bete noir . |
| 8 | At the moment there do n't appear to be man side effects because it is n't a poison . |
| 9 | If this is so , there are important practical implications , since while there may be no legal pressures , there would appear to be market pressures on managers to focus on share price . |
| 10 | Scotland 's lineout ace , however , would again appear to be Doddie Weir , whose height at the lineout tail can not be matched by the Welsh , unless they leave themselves unprotected elsewhere . |
| 11 | In fact , the emphasis of the pilot sites appears to be activity data as supplied through operational units . |
| 12 | We are trying to find out how a prisoner was able to posess a cannister of what appears to be CS gas ’ . |
| 13 | The other argument against Charles appears to be public opinion . |
| 14 | The only old-timer to be pensioned-off appears to be Mick Skinner , and that was someone else 's decision , not his . |
| 15 | Today , the Daily Mirror reveals the contents of a letter written on what appears to be Buckingham Palace notepaper and said to be from one official to another . |
| 16 | As with Aplysia , a key player in this process appears to be calcium ions . |
| 17 | The only one of the sources to provide any sort of basis for Husameddin 's statement , however , appears to be Ibn Taghribirdi , who seems to say that when he [ Molla Fenari ] stayed in Cairo , his son prayed the tarawih ( a Ramadan prayer ) in the medrese of al-Zayni " Abd al-Basit b . |
| 18 | David Mellish , Northumbria Police Assistant Chief Constable said : ‘ At this stage it appears to be IRA activity , but no claim has been made . ’ |
| 19 | Alternatively , for those with a little more money in the bank , something like a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet will produce what appears to be page printer quality at around half the price . |
| 20 | Their function appears to be group protection from water pressure although at least one predator ( oystercatcher ) seems not to recognise N. lapillus as such en masse and it is conceivable that aggregation behaviour may offer protection from those birds . |
| 21 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 22 | The main obstacles to normalizing relations appeared to be North Korea 's unwillingness to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and Japan 's refusal to accede to the North 's demand for compensation not merely for the period of Japan 's colonization of the country ( 1910-45 ) but also for the post-Pacific War period . |
| 23 | He happened to notice that there were crystals which appeared to be mirror images of each other . |
| 24 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 25 | The name appeared to be Lora Lee |
| 26 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 27 | Wycliffe looked closely at what appeared to be scorch marks on the collar where the blood had caked most thickly . |
| 28 | The most important casualty appeared to be Francis Bacon 's ‘ Study of a Nude with a Figure in a Mirror ’ ( lot 34 , unpublished est. £1 million ) , which attracted no bids and was bought-in at £680,000 ( $1.02 million ) , but was sold to an unidentified Continental dealer or collector after the sale for £735,000 ( $1.1 million ) . |
| 29 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |