Example sentences of "it appear [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only very superficially does it appear to be significant . |
| 2 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 3 | It appears to be futile in that inevitably one finds oneself conceiving something else . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It appears to be that of a forty to fifty year old prince or aristocrat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | There are numerous definitions of the term ‘ project ’ , but it appears to be impossible to find a good one . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 11 | The leader of the county council , Tony Hart , is reported as saying : ’ at the moment it appears to be little more than a line on the map , and a pretty thick and crude one . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It appears to be worthwhile to give some historical background to the statutes to be considered . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It appears to be contrary to what the Criminal Law Revision Committee and Parliament intended when they established " dishonesty " in the 1968 Act . |
| 17 | Erm so that it would be in our view desirable that the level of provision for York was that which was realistic to er to accommodate , in this case it appears to be thirty three hectares and that the er the a additional element should be located in in or between the other districts in the Greater York area . |
| 18 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 19 | Finally , in respect of the Wandjina , it appears to be more than chance that the word ‘ Wandjina ’ — sometimes spelled ‘ Wondjina ’ — can be formed from two Sanskrit words , ‘ Vand ’ and ‘ Jina ’ . |
| 20 | Consistent with this observation , LTP in mossy fibres is not blocked by the NMDA antagonist AP5 ( ref. 163 ) ; moreover , it appears to be nonassociative . |
| 21 | Er , you can see that this is a I do n't know whether , it appears to be darker at the centre than it is round the edges , I do n't know whether you tried to burn it in just a little bit in the middle , holding back the edges , but it 's , it 's got sort of a darkish patch i in the centre . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One feature of the genetic decoding mechanism is that it appears to be irreversible . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Allowing suppliers representatives to control stocks is liable to misuse even if it appears to be attractive |
| 27 | Different levels of use according to sex of speaker are particularly evident in Ballymacarrett , where it appears to be younger female speakers who are most strongly associated with the incoming raised variants . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | " The custom of disguising reality so that it appeared to be perfect " had long been the tactic of the Franco regime . |