Example sentences of "which appeared [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its diet appears to have been soft fruit , which appeared to contradict the suggestion that thick enamel was adaptive for hard fruit diets ; but the more recent conclusion that the microwear of the much earlier thick-enamelled hominoid from Pasalar is indicative of a hard-fruit diet suggests that there was a dietary shift after the development of thick enamel , with dietary change independent of morphology . |
| 2 | But he also provided the second , because — with the possible exception of the United States , that land which appeared to promise the poor a personal way out of lifelong poverty , the worker a private exit from the working class , and every citizen equality with every other — the working classes knew that the liberal free market alone would not give them their rights and their needs . |
| 3 | It was advice which appeared to ignore the fact that if Alexei did not , Sidacai 's death warrant would be signed and his sentence executed . |
| 4 | The Presidents of Burkina , Côte d'Ivoire , The Gambia , Nigeria , and Togo participated in the meeting , which appeared to set the seal on 19 months of civil war estimated to have cost 15,000 lives including that of former President Samuel Doe . |
| 5 | In September 1991 , after the banning of the republican Communist Party , Ikramov had ordered the removal of Lenin 's statue in Dushanbe — a controversial order which appeared to precipitate the return to power of the majority communist faction in the Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38418 ] . |
| 6 | The inconclusive meeting had been held to discuss issues which appeared to threaten the dialogue . |
| 7 | The other development was budgetary delegation to schools ( LMS ) under the 1988 Education Reform Act ( DES 1988b , 1991d ) , which appeared to reduce the scope for enhanced staffing , despite the Secretary of State 's approval of PNP-style weightings for social disadvantage , ethnic minority groups , special needs , and small schools in the Leeds LMS formula ( Leeds City Council 1989c ) . |
| 8 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 9 | They found paper which appeared to match the death threat to MacQuillan and the note to Wainfleet ; and they took away a pair of trousers with worn pockets . |
| 10 | He also issued a tough statement when changes were made to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill in the House of Lords which appeared to diminish the status of Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 11 | He walked over to a polished mahogany cabinet which appeared to house the stereo unit , and began to flick through a collection of LPs . |
| 12 | However , the secretary-general of Hezbollah , Sheikh Abbas Musawi , said on Nov. 20 that the fate of the Western hostages was no longer linked to that of Arabs held by Israel , a declaration which appeared to remove the last political obstacle to the resolution of the hostage issue . |