Example sentences of "appeared [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 March an armada of 45 US Navy warships , Operation Prairie Fire , complete with aircraft carriers , 200 aircraft , and nuclear submarines , appeared off the Libyan coast in the Gulf of Sidra and deliberately trailed their coats until the Libyans reacted by firing two SA-5 missiles at the American aircraft . |
| 2 | ‘ Figures appeared between the wrecked cottages ahead , their hands high . |
| 3 | Despite the introduction of a liaison committee in 1950 , little common ground appeared between the two sides . |
| 4 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 5 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 6 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 7 | Of these , three items , ‘ A Visit to Newgate ’ , ‘ The Black Veil ’ , and ‘ The Great Winglebury Duel ’ appeared for the first time in this collection . |
| 8 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 9 | Similarly a small black hoverfly , Cheilosia bergenstammi , whose larvae feed on ragwort , was captured in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 ( N= 19 ) and has not been seen since , whereas C. vernalis , whose food plant is unknown , appeared for the first time in 1978 and has since become frequent ( N=118 ) . |
| 10 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 11 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 12 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 13 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 14 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 15 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 16 | Mr Speaker Weatherill , who opened the exhibition , appeared for the last time before retirement in the distinctive tail-coat , knee-breeches and white bands of his office . |
| 17 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 18 | Andy Partner appeared as a second half substitute for fellow youth team centre-half Paul Flowers , but it was second substitute Steve Ball who was quickest into the action . |
| 19 | From that moment , he appeared as a political intriguer , and an intriguer on his personal account also . ’ |
| 20 | All colour had gone from the landscape , leaving the ground a kind of shimmering , bright grey on which every bush and stunted tree appeared as a black silhouette . |
| 21 | In the press , in the House of Commons , in reports to government departments and in popular folklore there emerged the evacuee stereotype — a dirty , lice-ridden and foul-mouthed urchin who wet the bed with monotonous regularity , preferred fish and chips to a proper three-course meal and was about as domesticated as a wildcat ; similarly , the evacuee mother appeared as a negligent slut , impossible to live with and having the vocabulary of a Billingsgate fish porter . |
| 22 | She appeared as a Victorian doll , curiously animated . |
| 23 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 24 | While so many documentary-makers seem chiefly eager to exhibit their punditry , he appeared as a genuine seeker after knowledge . |
| 25 | The West End then beckoned , and he appeared as a solid juvenile in a sequence of light comedies . |
| 26 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 27 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 28 | They also desired to emulate that other class for whom time and birth had provided legitimacy , and for whom wealth appeared as a natural attribute rather than a possibly transient accretion . |
| 29 | It appeared as a leading policy under Sanjay Gandhi 's Four Point ( later Five Point ) Programme following the first official policy document ( National Population Policy : a statement by the Government of India , 16 April 1976 ) . |
| 30 | Remarkably , both factors appeared as a double band in the acrylamide gels , suggesting some kind of post-translational modification , although the existence of two different factors binding to the same sequence can not be excluded . |