Example sentences of "it appeared that [art] " in BNC.

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1 It appeared that a German S.P. gun had joined the snipers and was lobbing the occasional shell into the vicinity of the orchard .
2 Within a day or two it appeared that a complete South African team would be fielded and Treviso might just see the start of rugby 's World War III .
3 Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place .
4 It appeared that a great deal of income was potentially being lost as procedures were not consistent throughout the network .
5 In March 1990 it appeared that a further RAF attack had been averted .
6 Reports suggested that senior figures in the ANC had sought to prevent a top-level meeting until it appeared that a cessation of violence could not be brought about by any other means .
7 The announcement will end months of acrimony after it appeared that a guarantee to base the centre in the city would be snatched away at the 11th hour .
8 However , objections to the Barker-Green agreement were raised by the administrative staff at Stuart House and it appeared that no further progress could be made , when quite fortuitously and coincidentally Jacques received a letter from the Secretary to the Bedfordshire County Federation of WEA Branches .
9 The compounds had not led , as he had then hoped , to new dyestuffs , and it appeared that no one had yet investigated their biological properties .
10 While I was personally convinced that abuse had taken place , it appeared that no further action was likely .
11 Most relate to the use of custodial penalties and are based on a technique that dates back to 1949 when courts were directed to avoid passing custodial sentences on young adult offenders unless it appeared that no other method was appropriate .
12 The antibiotics were being injected into the brain at doses sufficient to block all protein synthesis for several hours , and yet it appeared that no other aspect of the animal 's behaviour was affected — not its capacity to perform already learned tasks , to see and respond to the world around or to act otherwise ‘ normally ’ ; the only thing it seemingly could n't do was to memorize new tasks .
13 And so to war , and at first a very strange war , On either side it appeared that no one wanted to start the bombing war which in our way had been our long time plan — in fact the Trenchard theory that fighters are for defence , bombers for offence .
14 It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions !
15 It appeared that the slit trench he was in during the bombardment had received a direct hit .
16 It appeared that the officer had been admiring the fish swimming about in the water of the Orne when a Royal Marine Commando asked him if he would like some for his supper .
17 It appeared that the enemy force , consisting of two motor rife regiments ( the equivalent of a British brigade ) , plus a flank guard of a tank company , had halted seventeen kilometres to the north-west of the brigade 's current position , and that they were facing south-west .
18 Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket .
19 It appeared that the rapid growth associated with the British industrial revolution had come to an end and that the theory of demographic transition , which predicted a phase when death rates and birth rates fell to low levels , was correct .
20 In 1925 , then , it appeared that the position of the trade unions and the pattern of industrial relations were about to change .
21 In East Suffolk it appeared that the Ipswich branch could provide a nucleus around which another successful enterprise might be constructed .
22 It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ .
23 It appeared that the former was hung up on sadomasochism and the latter high on sex , leaving little for Fonda and Hopper to do but punctuate every word with ‘ man ’ .
24 It appeared that The Smiths thought they had given enough exposure to James and that Factory were now taking advantage of the situation .
25 As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit .
26 He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt .
27 Now it appeared that the little boy was in reality a delicate child .
28 Suddenly , Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner .
29 However , it appeared that the other proposals would provide a comprehensive framework for accounting for shares , debts and the costs relating thereto , and so there seemed no need to proceed with this proposal .
30 Dennis Skinner said it appeared that the Government ‘ was engaged in undercover activity ’ .
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