Example sentences of "appeared to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appeared to be no reason to upset long-established routines in this respect . |
| 2 | Protestant churches were not unaffected by the spirit in which the campaign often appeared to be conducted . |
| 3 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 4 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 5 | The query , for such it was , emanated from an elderly lady who appeared to be clad entirely in shawls . |
| 6 | The lady raised an admonitory finger in rebuke and the sergeant observed , to his surprise , that despite it being a hot summer 's day , she was wearing what appeared to be mittens . |
| 7 | She appeared to be taking herb samples . |
| 8 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 9 | Trevor Newsom 's face appeared to one side of Derek 's . |
| 10 | At the time it appeared to be the most plausible perhaps . |
| 11 | And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island . |
| 12 | So , under what appeared to be an informal deal between Bonn , Berlin , Prague and Warsaw , the special trains passed through East German territory on the way out — but with senior West German officials on board as a guarantee . |
| 13 | What appeared to be the last rites were then administered by Kevin McDonald , whoise storming try was converted by Pugh , but with three minutes to go Moon , not to be eclipsed , cut loose for his third try and Watkins landed the match-winning conversion from far out on the left . |
| 14 | Lendl , still trying to push the disappointment of his United States Open defeat by Boris Becker to the back of his mind and impatient for another crack at the elusive Wimbledon title , appeared to be going through the motions during his round-robin match at the Stuttgart Classic . |
| 15 | It adds : ‘ The major influences on the use of inspectors ’ time appeared to be ad hoc requests both from institutions and from a variety of officers , and the personal professional interests of individual advisers . ’ |
| 16 | British Rail has launched an inquiry , but a spokesman said the alarm bells and gates appeared to be working properly . |
| 17 | In the same inning , Carney Lansford grounded to shortstop , in what appeared to be an inning-ending double-play with the bases loaded . |
| 18 | The Princess appeared to be at pains to avoid sensationalism as she declined to specify the abuses that the federation is aiming to stamp out . |
| 19 | They matched the rugs draped over the equipment on stage , so you appeared to be looking into a stall at a bazaar . |
| 20 | Given the propensity of Abu Nidal ( whose real name is Sabri el-Banna ) to embarrass the Palestine Liberation Organisation 's chairman , Yasser Arafat , the statement - which was not typed on Abu Nidal 's ‘ Fatah Revolutionary Council ’ notepaper - appeared to be timed to coincide with the attampts of the Egyptian President , Hosni Mubarak , to involve the Israelis in talks with pro-PLO Palestinians . |
| 21 | The incident appeared to be part of the continuing harassment of the opposition , similar to the brief arrest of the Christian Democrat leader , Ricardo Arias Calderon , earlier this week . |
| 22 | The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature . |
| 23 | The three-man tribunal did allow , however , that the exclusion appeared to be too harsh for the alleged crime . |
| 24 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 25 | The ideal grew out of one man 's initiative and people who referred to Sir Matt Busby as a visionary did so without hesitation because , of all the titles bestowed upon him , none appeared to be more appropriate . |
| 26 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 27 | Acas officials briefed union leaders yesterday on discussions with management last Tuesday , but there appeared to be no possibility of an early breakthrough . |
| 28 | Mr Lawson received a standing ovation for his low-key conference speech , but that appeared to be more of a defensive rank-and-file reaction to widespread media reports of party dissent than enthusiasm for the unflinching substance of the message . |
| 29 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 30 | The Chancellor appeared to be unmoved by the appeals from some of his party faithful , preferring to claim that his actions were in the country 's long term interest . |