Example sentences of "appeared [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had employer approval as a means of supplying efficient seamen and appeared to be run by boarding house keepers in the employer interest , though it conducted at least one successful strike and at one point attempted to extend its influence by sending a delegate to Southampton . |
| 2 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 3 | Housing association staff said few of the affected residents appeared to be covered by property insurance . |
| 4 | They communicated with the mines of A , a neighbour of B , although no one suspected this , for the shafts appeared to be filled with earth . |
| 5 | Achilles tired and veered towards the stands , seeming to some spectators to carry Pretty Polly wide , but once past she appeared to be set for victory . |
| 6 | The pages appeared to be stained with gravy or some kind of reddish sauce . |
| 7 | The point appeared to be taken on board by UK energy minister Tim Eggar who acknowledged that there were other areas competing for shares of hard-pressed oil company budgets as the world oil prices fell back in real terms to pre-1974 levels . |
| 8 | The session appeared to be dominated by consideration of economic problems in particular . |
| 9 | As the leaders rushed towards the final hairpin , Senna appeared to be caught by surprise as Mansell began to slow , the McLaren slewing sideways under heavy braking before smashing into the back of the Williams . |