Example sentences of "appears [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Nick Berry 's Physical Pursuits , the former EastEnder appears for a mere 10 minutes but declares : ‘ With this new approach you can shift the flab and even cure a hangover . ’
2 If a significant departure appears for a certain chromosome , the chromosome can be examined in more detail and the position of the peak grain distribution related to the G-bands .
3 There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners !
4 You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes . ’
5 There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life .
6 Hand appears as a simple two-valued property , left or right , but it is actually the relectsproduct of a pair of factors .
7 At first sight this appears as a simple conflict of competing demands upon a given quantity of surplus-value .
8 On the Isle of Man , she is known as Lhiannon-Shee and appears as a blood-sucking VAMPIRE .
9 Sometimes she appears as a strange hybrid of the two : a woman 's face with long cow 's ears .
10 He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence .
11 For example , Nina Hagen appears as a sickly-sweet Madonna with husband and child under a halo of circus lights .
12 It appears as a tiny whitish worm , often coated in green algae , and is impossible to pull off without causing damage to the fish .
13 In such a stroboscopic portrait a periodic attractor appears as a small number of points , a quasi-periodic attractor appears as a closed curve , and a strange attractor appears as an intricate structure .
14 This typically appears as a gradual pattern : therefore , from a sociolinguistic point of view , sound-change is most definitely a gradual process .
15 ‘ Language across the Curriculum ’ sometimes appears as a general title , but there is no evidence that any languages other than English contribute strongly to a serious policy for other subjects in school .
16 For example , my understanding of the appearance of the landscape where I live on the Malvern Hills is increased by the knowledge that , ‘ The water table appears as a regular springline at about 600 feet above sea level , corresponding to the limit of cultivation and of historic settlement ’ .
17 For Sumner , law embodies the appearance of reality produced by social relations , so that , for example , an employment contract appears as a consensual contract between equals ( a point also made by Hunt ) , but it also embodies those appearances as they have been seen and interpreted by classes and groups who make laws .
18 In a publication such as a pamphlet , which may well have no separate title-page , the title often appears as a dropped head on the opening page of the text .
19 The eye first appears as a cup-shaped outgrowth from the brain .
20 The banshee sometimes appears as a horrific woman with straggling black hair , one nostril , protruding front teeth , and eyes red from weeping .
21 In these latter cases , it will be difficult to defend as comment unless it clearly appears as a mere expression of opinion which a fair-minded man could honestly infer from the facts upon which the comment is said to based .
22 In Kisling 's portrait Cocteau appears as a small , sensitive , dreaming figure , almost lost in the large room , with its chairs and table , open window , blue sky and a cat .
23 Initially it appears as a small bump , but grows rapidly .
24 In such a stroboscopic portrait a periodic attractor appears as a small number of points , a quasi-periodic attractor appears as a closed curve , and a strange attractor appears as an intricate structure .
25 Pr85 env , the initial translation product of the env gene forms oligomers , undergoes glycosylation and is proteolytically cleaved during its transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to the cell surface where it appears as a small transmembrane C-terminal domain p15(E) TM , linked noncovalently or by a disulphide bridge to a larger extracellular domain gp70 SU ( ref 25 ) .
26 The desert , if visible at all , appears as a low and distant range of sand hills .
27 Although Introduction to Special Relativity appears as a new title , in reality it is a heavily revised , expanded and updated version of Wolfgang Rindler 's Special Relativity ( now out of print ) .
28 On the cover of her autobiography , ‘ Putting Myself in the Picture ’ , she appears as a middle-aged schoolgirl , a sad red ribbon dragging back her hair , an ugly navy jumper over a regulation white blouse .
29 Judas appears as a false friend who , for purely mercenary reasons , betrays his master and brings about his master 's death .
30 For some , this appears as a rapid move away from the consensus approach to change which characterised education up to the 1970s , and as a move towards imposed solutions at all levels of the service .
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