Example sentences of "what appear [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 2 | The problem , however , is that Becker fails to reconcile to any acceptable degree what appear to be two mutually antagonistic themes . |
| 3 | The Z-rock ( Cinoptilolite Zeolite ) which we placed in a test tank has split into pieces along what appear to be sedimentary lines and turned yellow . |
| 4 | Even in what appear to be straightforward motor skills the changes in learning are associated with greater selectivity and more economical use of the evidence needed to guide performance . |
| 5 | Although it is usual to model responsibilities in terms of a hierarchical tree there are bound to be overlaps between what appear to be different levels of the hierarchy . |
| 6 | The issue of power brings a thread of coherence to what appear to be divergent reforms . |
| 7 | Now the wise extra-mural department would doubtless maintain a facade of what appear to be voluntary committees . |
| 8 | But it does mean that in analysing the effects of what appear to be clear cases of monopoly , we know where to look for the source of the problem . |
| 9 | Particularly characteristic are what appear to be large courtyard structures , often associated with a detached bath-house ( fig. 4 ) . |
| 10 | My own investigation into the organisation of written texts at lower secondary level ( Harris , 1980 ) points to the occurrence of a range of sharply differentiated linguistic features that vary not so much with subject areas but with what appear to be fundamental text types . |
| 11 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 12 | Our thesis is this : educational accountability is not a localised phenomenon , therefore , what appear to be local responses may have a wider significance than was imagined at their inception . |
| 13 | This is because metaphorical mappings , and hence readings , are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures . |
| 14 | This will not , however , solve the problem of certain children taking on what appear to be menial roles . |
| 15 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 16 | What appears to be one of the earliest sections of the manuscripts the section beginning ‘ So through the evening , through the violet air ’ ( dating from c.1914 ) contains an arresting image which would find its way into the final poem . |
| 17 | What appears to be one village ( and is marked as such on modern maps and on the road signs ) can in fact be seen to consist of no less than eight separate hamlets — Elston ( largely deserted , with a former chapel ) , Shrewton ( from which the village has taken its name ) , Maddington , Netton , Rollestone ( largely deserted with a redundant church ) , Homanton ( deserted ) , Addestone ( deserted ) and Bourton ( deserted ) . |
| 18 | A man with what appears to be two sacks of potatoes on his back stops and looks up to where I sit . |
| 19 | From the cantharus of pl.13 flows what appears to be two jets of a fountain . |
| 20 | What appears to be stable in interpretations of here ( apart from curious usages deriving from long-distance telephonic communication and long-distance travel , discussed in Lyons , 1977 ) is that the deictic centre is located where the speaker is . |
| 21 | This bypassing of these groups leads to a worrying loss of expertise , for what appears to be political reasons , namely , that the Rape Crisis Lines have radical politics . |
| 22 | Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |
| 23 | This is hardly surprising as it takes a very buoyant personality indeed to cope with what appears to be constant rejection . |
| 24 | Although there is some coverage of what appears to be routine violence on estates up and down the country — for example , on Today and This Week recently — this is one area we all under — report . |
| 25 | Or what appears to be outrageous ? ’ |
| 26 | Doubt is cast upon Bursali Mehmed Tahir 's statement , however , by the fact that in the concluding lines of what appears to be another autograph manuscript of the same work , Molla Husrev remarks that he finished the composition of it certainly refers to the work , not the manuscript ) on Saturday 2 Jumada I 883/Saturday 1 August 1478 , having begun it on Saturday 12 Dhu " l-Ka'da 877/Saturday 10 April 1473 . |
| 27 | These problems are by no means unique to language in a signed mode and , as before , what appears to be true of spoken languages also can be shown to occur in BSL , |
| 28 | This confirms many readers ' views and , since woodworkers keep tool and machinery suppliers in business , it seems to me that somebody on the supply side should justify what appears to be gross profiteering . |
| 29 | On the one hand we have what appears to be pop star wingeing , but most people would give their right arm to be the principle subjects on a tour of this scale . |
| 30 | Organisers are frequently met with what appears to be rigid rules — ‘ We always have a five foot aisle , sir , it 's all we need ’ — when in fact the reality should be far more flexible , better suited to your particular needs and safer too . |