Example sentences of "appears [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , it is less appreciated that in many cases the causality also appears to work in the opposite direction ; that is , the nature of the British housing system tends to form and perpetuate major demographic differentials in terms of fertility , nuptiality and marital breakdown , and mortality .
2 In other words , the counsellor must seek the real feelings of the counsellee through careful listening to what is being said , how it is being said , and how this appears to relate to the real situation .
3 This duty appears to overlap with the other duties vis-à-vis education which are imposed by the Act .
4 Such an idea appears to accord with the known state of affairs at Poole Harbour .
5 Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) .
6 In both procyclic and bloodstream forms , transcription of the ble gene appears to originate from the upstream tubulin promoter , despite the presence of a VSG promoter in the integrated construct .
7 Part of the reason for this relationship between susceptibility to weathering and temperature of crystallization appears to lie in the relative strength of the bonds between oxygen and the cations in each mineral .
8 Newmark ( 1991 ) proposes two major concepts , of " semantic " and " communicative " translation , the one " author-centred " , " faithful " , informative , the other reader-centred " , " freer " , " effective " ; the opposition of " semantic " and " communicative " appears to correspond to the time-honoured distinction between the " literal " and the " free " ( or the " creative " , or the " translation in the spirit of the thing " ) .
9 From the patient 's point of view the medical profession still appears divided about the main causes of heart attacks ; there is the stress lobby , the cigarette lobby and the exercise lobby .
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