Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] appeared [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further disparities appeared on the home furnishings front ; the standard English width of 21-inch wallpaper rolls was unknown to American decorators , who worked with a 28-inch standard , mostly vinyl , paper . |
| 2 | A few men appeared at the corner of the union building , on their faces a blend of caution and apathy . |
| 3 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 4 | The male working-class vote was , from the start , divided between the existing parties , and when socialist or social democratic parties appeared on the scene they seldom attained the political dominance which the solid support of the workers would have assured for them . |
| 5 | A pair of waving ginger hairs appeared in the corner of a mouth the colour of old putty . |
| 6 | Not only have many such parties appeared on the scene during the present century — the communist parties and anti-colonial parties such as the Indian National Congress — but there is in all socialist parties ( as well as in some right-wing parties , such as the fascist parties of the 1920s ) a persistent element of non-participating opposition . |
| 7 | He was Mr Geoffrey Pattie , and he was given special responsibility for space ; numerous bullish stories appeared in the press about the likelihood of increased British space expenditure . |
| 8 | Two tiny children appeared from the shadows . |
| 9 | Sad really , but I 'd rather the impotent ramblings appeared in the Spectator and left the Guardian to those of us who enjoy reading it . |
| 10 | The two remaining horses appeared round the corner , one of them the roan . |
| 11 | Similar escarpments appeared in the west , their faces in shadow . |
| 12 | A little further on dozens of similar dots appeared on the fronts of tightly-shuttered houses . |
| 13 | Oncoming carts appeared in the gloom , the drivers calling to each other , one moving over for the other . |
| 14 | Early in September , large numbers of dead and dying dolphins appeared on the shores of the Greek island of Zakinthos , suggesting that the disease is being carried eastwards . |
| 15 | Only on the very clearest days , when the air was like the purest well-water , shadowy blots appeared to the west and north to show where the forest came to an end at hills , mountains … but they were a world away , two , three , four days ' journeying … if one dared . |
| 16 | His face began to change , and small , shadowed lines appeared at the corners of his mouth and eyes . |
| 17 | An example of such mistaken ideas appeared in the Evening Standard in a scathing review of our Report written by John Rae , ex-head of Westminster School . |
| 18 | Selections from her didactic writings appeared in The Lady 's Monitor ( 1828 ) . |
| 19 | And then two human torsos appeared in the distance . |
| 20 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 21 | Its façade and finest decorative features appeared in the New Zealand film Pictures . |
| 22 | There were far more teacher-training college libraries than any other kind of library from which multiple examples appeared in the shops . |
| 23 | As the US government grew increasingly irritated with Israel 's intransigent position on the Palestinian issue , a number of apparently officially inspired reports appeared in the media in late 1989 , evidently designed to embarrass the Israeli government . |
| 24 | During the ‘ twenties and ‘ thirties all sorts of items that were unredeemed pledges from the pawnbroking days appeared in the furniture shop windows . |
| 25 | I 'd made maybe ten yards when the door crashed open , and some grey edges appeared in the darkness before me . |
| 26 | BRITAIN is dreaming of a green Christmas this year for the first time since artificial trees appeared in the shops . |
| 27 | More men appeared in the street and began to converge on the courtyard . |
| 28 | Four of the Doctor 's five balls appeared in the midst of the fleshy curtain . |
| 29 | The first artiodactyls appeared in the Eocene epoch , 57 to 37 million years ago . |
| 30 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |