Example sentences of "appear [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As it is drawn up , swags appear between the rows of rings , forming a scalloped hemline .
2 With the Consulate France became respectable — the Concordat allowed Napoleon to appear as the protector of Catholicism .
3 This chamber is brilliantly sculpted to appear as the inside of a vast chest cavity .
4 As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests .
5 The kings of Pergamum , as the monument on the Athenian Acropolis shows , wished to appear as the protagonists of a new Gigantomachia — the defenders of the divine order of Hellenic civilization against the northern barbarians .
6 Similar extensive bibliographies appear for the Church of England , all the monastic orders , Roman Catholicism , Spiritual Healing , Judaism , Islam and all other religious denominations and orders of , or relating to , Christianity .
7 Professional safeguards apply to those who appear for the prosecution and the defence .
8 As well as all the programs that appear in the above publications , what you may also do is use the programs that appear for the Singer System machine version of the Form Computer , called the Knitting Computer or Digiform Computer .
9 At the House of Lords hearing , the QC appearing for the Attorney General made it clear the law lords ' ruling meant no case could be brought against the hospital or medical staff involved .
10 Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , appearing for the film 's director and producer , Nigel Wingrove and John Stephenson , argued that the board 's grounds for banning the video rested upon very insecure foundations .
11 Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 .
12 But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ .
13 If section 9(4) was intended to have the effect contended for in the skeleton argument of Mr. William Charles , appearing for the Treasury Solicitor , appropriate words could easily have been found .
14 Mr. David Pannick , appearing for the applicants , submitted that the language of section 9(4) focused not on the historic question of how the relevant information was acquired by the intended witness , but upon the contemporaneous question of the capacity in which the evidence is to be given .
15 Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday .
16 He never forgave the chemist ( Sir ) Edward Frankland [ q.v. ] , who had been a colleague , for appearing for the prosecution .
17 Rodney Klevan QC is appearing for the prosecution and Gilfoyle is defended by David Turner QC .
18 The couple rent a home in the resort Joe is appearing for the summer .
19 In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three .
20 Moving the smaller oval into place is much easier than you might expect because of the way guidelines appear as the point that you have picked up come into alignment with important features on other object .
21 Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs .
22 In this he was probably hoping to answer those who had claimed that fear was the cause of his failure to appear during the campaign at Valencia .
23 On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar .
24 Now , with the faint light of morning appearing through the curtains , she was content simply to gaze on his sleeping features , wishing the moment would never end , wishing she could lie here forever , holding the man who held her heart .
25 Potentilla ‘ Melton Fire ’ Hardy perennial spreading shrub , with large bi-coloured strawberry-red and lemon flowers appearing through the whole of the summer .
26 Additionally , it is wise to lay a felt paper on floor boards before laying your underlay as this will prevent dust from entering the back of the carpet as well as minimising ‘ floorboard lines ’ appearing through the carpet surface .
27 The thin light was casting curious shadows everywhere now , and Lugh blinked and rubbed his eyes , because just for a moment it had seemed that figures were appearing through the mists ahead of him .
28 Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls .
29 It has been suggested that the President will instruct the Attorney General to appear for the defence in any trial of Dr Proctor , so important is the doctor 's contribution to the administration considered to be .
30 The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans .
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