Example sentences of "appears [prep] be some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although there now appears to be some question of the Holbein being withdrawn , on Wednesday 15 April Christie 's hope that the three star pictures of their Old Masters sale will be the now-notorious Holbein , Canaletto 's ‘ The Old Horse Guards , London , from St James 's Park ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ .
2 ( There appears to be some foundation for this approach in Lord Pearce 's judgment in Esso . )
3 There appears to be some misunderstanding here .
4 Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age .
5 There appears to be some evidence that the relationship between ratings of subjective risk and the probability of subsequent recall is not linear .
6 The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm .
7 Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant .
8 In cases of full surrogacy , where the fetus is not genetically related to the surrogate mother , there appears to be some doubt as to who is the legal mother , and this question will need to be settled .
9 But the production of such crops in the field appears to be some years away .
10 The registrar could be obliged to report the matter to one party when there appears to be some irregularity between the registered sex and the appearance of the other party .
11 But while a non-linguistic preference or bias might explain why the meaning of more appears to be acquired before that of less , there still appears to be some violation of the principle of Contrast when children respond to more and less as if their meanings were identical .
12 This is necessary since there appears to be some confusion about what Marx classified as luxury goods and the character of the labour embodied in them .
13 There appears to be some confusion concerning the genera Ophioprium and Ophiopristis .
14 Crap title aside , this excellent 60-minute fantasy appears to be some sort of morality tale of the decline of America , complete with idiots in Elvis masks , transvestite judges and the usual GWAR characters ( The Sexecutioner , Sleazy P Martini , etc . )
15 So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double .
16 In other words , there appears to be some form of ‘ nonlocal ’ effect , an effect that Einstein called a ‘ spooky action at a distance ’ !
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