Example sentences of "appeared [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft .
2 It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us .
3 To those who hold the view that " the more liberal a subject is , the more useless it is " , history must have appeared as the jewel in the non-utilitarian crown .
4 Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon .
5 What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois .
6 Whatever the mechanism of the assumed intron loss is in the chlorophyte mitochondrial lineage , that massive loss should have appeared after the bifurcation of lower and higher plants .
7 Several reports have recently appeared of the use of ketamine ( ‘ vitamin K , ’ ‘ super K ’ ) at ‘ rave ’ parties and night clubs .
8 Similarly , if the DSS had used the European equivalence scales , a further 1.3 million people would have appeared below the poverty line .
9 Armoured cars had appeared near the city centre and police barriers had been placed around Red Square , which was next to Manezh Square .
10 It is a great misfortune for my book to come out with it ( though I am glad it was written before it ) : if it had only appeared with The Present and the Past .
11 A gap has appeared above the string of our new loft staircase .
12 At the last general election , the section on Northern Ireland in the Tory manifesto would have appeared under the heading ‘ foreign affairs ’ if someone had n't noticed it in proof at the last moment .
13 A further series of ‘ county ’ books is that devoted to ‘ The Making of the English Landscape ’ , of which more than a dozen have appeared under the Hodder & Stoughton imprint .
14 ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard .
15 A HOST of unusual spring migrant birds have appeared in the North East .
16 Before he first entered the charts he had appeared in the film Beat Girl and in ITV 's No Hiding Place .
17 Since 1972 , however , the fact that an inspector 's investigation is to be carried out has always appeared in the AIB Bulletin in which the summary of events is recounted .
18 He was n't wearing the ridiculously inadequate suit in which he 'd first appeared in the village on that same spot .
19 A huge hole has recently appeared in the layer above the Antarctic ice cap .
20 The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction .
21 Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred .
22 Mannerism had appeared in the madrigal at least twenty years earlier , with Rore ( see p. 233 ) , and still more with Wert who , like Luzzaschi , had studied with Rore .
23 She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee .
24 Ardiles stepped into the row yesterday and said : ‘ I am very disappointed and angry that the name of West Bromwich Albion has again appeared in the press for all the wrong reasons .
25 Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets , they rank as first editions in book form .
26 We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England .
27 He said that no decisions had been reached on any of the ‘ scare stories ’ which had appeared in the Press .
28 ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess .
29 When Iago outlines his plan to regain Othello 's respect through the intervention of Desdemona , Cassio is grateful : The point that this sequence establishes is that Cassio , like Roderigo before him , and like Othello , and Desdemona after him , trusts Iago and believes that he has appeared in the nick of time , solely in order to help him .
30 As , moreover , deficiencies have appeared in the capital control mechanisms , so refinements have been introduced .
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