Example sentences of "it appeared that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although the Kuwaiti army 's 6th Brigade had originally been chosen for the honour of liberating the city , it appeared that the Saudi commander ordered the Kuwaiti force to delay its advance , after US special forces attached to the Kuwaiti army had warned that returning Kuwaiti soldiers might seek vengeance on the capital 's 240,000 Palestinian inhabitants for the atrocities committed by the Iraqi forces .
2 Since , when he became Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1860s , Valuev was not to be noted for liberalism , it appeared that the new reign and the effects of the war were creating enthusiasm for change in places where it tended , under normal circumstances , to be rare .
3 Although counting remained incomplete in several constituencies , it appeared that the Liberal Party had won 53 seats in the 88-member Legislative Assembly and its coalition partner , the National Party , had won nine ; the ALP and the Liberal-National alliance each now controlled half of the six state governments .
4 Although the final results of the legislative elections , also held on May 11 , were not available at the end of June , it appeared that the Lakas-NUCD coalition had won only two of the 24 Senate seats , and around 50 seats in the 200-member House of Representatives .
5 It appeared that the crucial factor in Rico Toro 's subsequent decision to resign was a threat from the United States , made by the US ambassador to Bolivia , Robert Gelbard , that some US$100,000,000 of military and economic aid would be suspended unless his appointment was withdrawn .
6 It appeared that the rapid growth associated with the British industrial revolution had come to an end and that the theory of demographic transition , which predicted a phase when death rates and birth rates fell to low levels , was correct .
7 Now it appeared that the little boy was in reality a delicate child .
8 It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ .
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