Example sentences of "[noun sg] appear [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Folded into the page of Vico on which the passage appeared was a bill for candles on the back of which Ash had written : ‘ The individual appears for an instant , joins the community of thought , modifies it and dies ; but the species , that dies not , reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence . ’ |
| 2 | The issue of Al-Fajr in which the article appeared was apparently approved by the Ministry of Interior . |
| 3 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 4 | ‘ The minimum time for the lights to flash before a train appears is 30 seconds , ’ said the spokesman . |
| 5 | It is relevant that the time at which this text appeared was in the late 1970s . |
| 6 | The odds against that number appearing are 4,096:1 . |
| 7 | One that takes time to appear is the creation of a data base of information applicable to a whole range of products . |
| 8 | That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal . |