Example sentences of "appear [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity . |
| 2 | Such inferences appear to be of different kinds . |
| 3 | Specific causes such as tumours , drug toxicity , infection and trauma appear to be of lesser significance as causes of dementia . |
| 4 | But the main problems appear to be with residential home owners , who have threatened legal action over allegedly unfair contracts drawn by some SSDs . |
| 5 | As you appear to be without legal assistance the following instructions must be carried out forthwith : — |
| 6 | Even if appliances appear to be in good order , allow for the cost of immediate testing and servicing by the Gas Board , CORGI registered contractor or , in the case of oil , the oil company 's nominee , as soon as you move in . |
| 7 | The badges , now faded , appear to be from various air forces which fought during World War Two . |
| 8 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 9 | The accusation of soliciting was avoided , but she did appear to be on friendly terms with rather too many American and Canadian soldiers . |
| 10 | Water quality does not appear to be of great concern to these hardy fish , although an approximate simulation of Amazonian habitats does encourage them to exhibit better coloration . |
| 11 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 12 | Contamination of environmental surfaces within the Edinburgh outpatient clinic did not appear to be of clinical significance given the scarcity of evidence for nosocomial spread . |
| 13 | The metabolic expression of the thrifty genotype favouring non-insulin dependent diabetes would appear to be via selective tissue insulin resistance and relatively high basal and stimulated insulin concentrations . |
| 14 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 15 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 16 | That 's what we mean by the year , and at opposite sides of its orbit a nearby star , for example , will appear to be in different directions relative the background of very much fainter , more distant stars , and we can use that to see how far away it is . |
| 17 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 18 | The race for the two promotion places in Division One appears to be between top three sides Sudbury Wanderers , Soham and Woodbridge , who were all victorious . |
| 19 | When the only choice appears to be between continuing depression or continuing the various problems associated with drink or drug use , it is small wonder that sufferers from Chemical Dependency constitute 30% of those people who commit suicide . |
| 20 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | Furthermore , people are more likely to report suspicious circumstances surrounding an individual who appears to be of lower-class origin . |
| 22 | It is of better quality in the Blackfriars mosaic although , here too , there is work which appears to be of different standards , ( see pls. 4a and 4b ) . |
| 23 | He says the project appears to be on indefinite hold . |
| 24 | The Combined Staff ( OVS ) of the Joint High Command , the supreme military organ , to this day appears to be without rear services ( logistics ) directorates , an operations department and a transport department . |
| 25 | The only exception to this appears to be in southern Denmark , where the Z3 Carbonate appears to have onlapped the Ringkøping-Fyn High , relative to the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates , and the facies belts and isopachs were displaced towards the basin margin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 26 | The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment . |
| 27 | Unlike the active voice , the passive poses a problem with verbs of perception , since the distribution of the infinitive appears to be in systematic contradiction with what is observed above . |
| 28 | The intervention of the unsavoury witchdoctor Zikali , who appears to be in mental communication with Ayesha as she rules in Kôr , in a way diminishes her immortal , all-powerful aspect , yet it is easy to believe that Allan , always tormented by memories of his two beloved wives , Mane and Stella , should be persuaded by Zikali to visit Ayesha and win through her power a glimpse of the lost ones . |
| 29 | The engine appears to be in good order having recently had an upper cylinder overhaul and new valves and has a very modest oil consumption . |
| 30 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |