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

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1 House spiders have often been reported to appear upon the scene when music is being played .
2 These splendid and intricate bronze castings are enigmatic : they appear on the scene without apparent precursors and with no obvious descendants .
3 Now rebel leaders appear on the scene and can be named .
4 But he and the five or six other aficionados of control line flying , a hobby which peaked in the 1950s and 60s and then declined when the more sophisticated radio control models appear on the scene , are hooked into a pure form of aeronautical nostalgia .
5 New faces appear on the scene each year , to help and encourage us – long may this continue .
6 Others were appearing on the scene to lend help in forming a crowd , but Jude ignored their stares and headed across the street , Marlin at her side .
7 Similar optimism seems to have surrounded each new polymer to appear on the scene .
8 Over the last two years , however , it can hardly have escaped your notice that a new software application called desktop publishing has begun to appear on the scene .
9 Why did she have to appear on the scene and spoil everything ?
10 The sparrows fly away when a marauding pussy appears on the scene .
11 THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle .
12 Paul appears on the scene within a year or so of the Crucifixion .
13 Whereas the essence of the previous law was that the threat was required to cause the breach of the peace , now it is enough if the conduct causes a person to believe that there will be violence , which might include continued violence if the scuffle is already in progress when the witness appears on the scene .
14 But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution .
15 However , I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene .
16 The man who was later to marry Camilla — army officer Andrew Parker Bowles — had already appeared on the scene .
17 by 1355 , however , some stability had returned after the Black Death and two new protagonists had appeared on the scene , each in his different way determined to enhance his prestige through war .
18 If Lotta had n't made her entry on cue and Rune had decided to prolong the specious friendship he had conjured up until she had duly appeared on the scene
19 What would have happened if Septimus Taylor had n't appeared on the scene when he did ?
20 The fact that the Phillips curve had appeared on the scene over thirty years after the publication of the General Theory , and that , in the interim , Keynesianism had managed to flourish without it , made little impression on those critics who were determined to strike at Keynesianism with any weapon which was to hand .
21 ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ we should be looking for a man or woman with no background , someone who has suddenly appeared on the scene , but everyone we have talked to has their own little niche . ’
22 This may be seen not only from a detailed breakdown of the sacrificial prescriptions in terms of the sex of the victim chosen for particular occasions , but more especially from an analysis of two other rituals which appeared on the scene at the same time : covenantal ( male ) circumcision and the regulations surrounding menstruation and childbirth .
23 I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’
24 A decade later , however , Calvinism appeared on the scene to make an already complicated matter more so .
25 In 1979 the Australian clearinghouse USER appeared on the scene , and its philosophy is on lines similar to that of the USA and UK clearinghouses .
26 A blotched tabby appeared on the scene .
27 At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg .
28 There was another brief appointment before Dr Mann appeared on the scene .
29 ‘ When everything was finished , when our beloved planet assumed a fairly habitable look , motorists appeared on the scene … note that the automobile itself was invented by pedestrians but somehow the motorists forgot that very quickly .
30 The Bass V reviewed in ‘ Oldies ’ , April ‘ 91 belonged more obviously to the dedicated bass side of the Fender family , but was n't introduced until 1965 , whereas the Bass VI appeared on the scene directly after the Jazz bass , which itself appeared during the tail-end of 1960 .
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