Example sentences of "appeared [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 2 | AS the talking went on in America the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have gained a firmer hold on their territorial war gains today . |
| 3 | The emergence of the scandal appeared to have struck a mortal blow to the government 's attempts to compact an alliance with the country 's second-largest opposition grouping , Komeito . |
| 4 | The Iranian government appeared to have played a major role in facilitating Keenan 's release , an article in the Tehran Times of Aug. 26 claiming that Keenan 's release was " the result of months of indefatigable efforts deployed by Iran , aimed at the freedom of all Western hostages " . |
| 5 | True , there was something unbearably starchy about much of the supposed ‘ informality ’ in the film , but it appeared to have cast a full tungsten glare over a few of the secrets of the magicians . |
| 6 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 7 | Although Charles succeeded in winning a third consecutive term in the election of May 1990 , persistent charges of authoritarianism appeared to have eroded a considerable portion of her popular support . |
| 8 | The man appeared to have regained a certain amount of composure . |