Example sentences of "it appeared to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of a harbour on a rough and windy day , which some small sailing ships were trying to enter with , it appeared to Ellie , no little difficulty , while behind them a steamer was cutting through the seas at great speed . |
| 2 | Between 1870 and 1918 it appeared to eugenicists concerned with finding ways of breeding a better race that the wrong class of people were using birth control . |
| 3 | It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner . |
| 4 | At least Stoke-by-Nayland is still almost as it appeared to Constable 's eye . |
| 5 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 6 | Here then was the world as it appeared to Paisley . |
| 7 | He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand . |
| 8 | This man had taken his son , was the way it appeared to Jonadab Oaks . |
| 9 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |