Example sentences of "appear to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cantal farms appear to be generally larger than the French average . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the beginnings of utterances appear to be particularly unconstrained by either the acoustic material or the linguistic interpretation . |
| 3 | In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case . |
| 4 | Where employees have a rooted substantive knowledge of what they are doing , rather than one which is simply a certified mastery of some abstract occupational or analytical techniques , then the institutional conditions appear to be most appropriate for such an achievement . |
| 5 | Two lines of approach appear to be most hopeful . |
| 6 | Cecil and Darby appear to be equally conventional , but in one case this is rejected , in the other it is accepted . |
| 7 | Some observers have noticed that domestic cats , when hunting small birds in the garden , appear to be amazingly intelligent in one particular respect . |
| 8 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 9 | The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds . |
| 10 | Highly theory-dependent explanations of these patterns then appear to be not much more than inspired common sense . |
| 11 | Some arctic species appear to be markedly temperature-sensitive in rate of growth , others less so , though low temperatures generally reduce the total biomass attained by cold-tolerant species in a single season ( Savile , 1972 ) . |
| 12 | Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 13 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 14 | The seats , which won a major design award before the SL even went on sale , appear to be rather flat , but support your back and thighs well . |
| 15 | Both tasks require courage of a high order , imagination , and the ability to lead people , but the last is very much easier when plainly you are advancing , and your organization is on a winning streak , than when you are trying to hold the team together while struggling against what at times appear to be nearly impossible odds . |
| 16 | The jaws appear to be slightly wider than long . |
| 17 | The jaw appear to be slightly longer than wide . |
| 18 | Law and Gilbert ( 1986 ) have made a survey of saltmarsh in the Western Isles , and their community definitions appear to be closely similar to those of the NVC . |
| 19 | While these two viewpoints may not at first sight appear to be strikingly different , they do in fact embody two quite opposing ways of approaching the discipline . |
| 20 | The Fosse Way was presumably important in the town 's early development but its origins appear to be surprisingly complex . |
| 21 | Indonesia 's dwindling reserves of virgin rainforest appear to be largely unaffected . |
| 22 | ‘ These violations are continuing and appear to be largely unchecked , ’ it says . |
| 23 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 24 | It seems to be an admission of failure and weakness , especially when others are coping perfectly well with what appear to be even greater strains . |
| 25 | From this survey it is possible , by means of complex statistical analyses , to divide people up into groups whose attitudes and purchasing habits appear to be broadly similar . |
| 26 | Greater weight is given to propositions which appear to be broadly consistent with the general law governing the area in which the proposition arises . |
| 27 | These and the other subject correlations in the appendix all appear to be broadly consistent with the expectations for this type of study . |
| 28 | Indeed the general levels of performance in road sign recall tasks appear to be extremely poor , even in tasks which would superficially appear to be relatively easy . |
| 29 | Single carers who have given up work to care appear to be especially likely to find themselves in this situation . |
| 30 | again one of those things which appear to be under financial pressure , I mean , one of our most respected adult school members at national level was actually awarded the M B E for his work in Wandsworth Prison , where he ran an adult school for thirty years . |