Example sentences of "[pron] appeared [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 2 | The book , which appeared first in 1936 , is the publication of Hubble 's ( eight ) Silliman Lectures in Yale University , along with a preface and introduction in which , incidentally , he explains why he spoke of nebulae rather than galaxies . |
| 3 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 4 | They have brought you a collection of 500 packets of seeds , each packet containing seed from several individual plants — which appeared similar — in a single locality . |
| 5 | The robe had ridden up to Ari 's waist , exposing her genitals which appeared swollen and engorged to unnatural proportions . |
| 6 | For a while she became the priestess of her own cult of Assassins , carrying out a deadly ceremony which appeared suave and innocuous , but was not . |
| 7 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 8 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 9 | Even those texts which appeared concerned with uncontroversial matters were open to be seen as engaging in political and social questions in which the state could suddenly intervene and cause uneasy writers to account for their work . |
| 10 | The monkey , which appeared huge to me , very soon discovered my hiding-place . |
| 11 | Sub-Committee E was able continuously to monitor the use of the new powers given by the Single European Act which allowed majority voting in the Council and to respond immediately , by way of a letter from Lord Oliver as Chairman to the Minister , on receipt of any proposal based on use of Article 100A which appeared improper . |
| 12 | Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years . |
| 13 | Her last book , which appeared this spring , The People of God : the struggle for world Catholicism ( 1989 ) , struck a more sombre note . |
| 14 | further investigations disclosed that they were in fact glued on with a resinous adhesive which appeared transparent to the X-rays . |
| 15 | He was puzzled by George 's attitude , which appeared hostile , although he could think of no reason why . |
| 16 | The actress who appeared nude in the glamour mag has now got a slightly more covered-up role as a saxophone-playing lifeguard in ITV 's Baywatch . |
| 17 | In the climate of the time anyone who appeared strange was suspect of heresy , especially those who voluntarily embraced poverty and wandered about . |
| 18 | It is also possible that magistrates gave defendants the benefit of the doubt when in the preliminary inquiry both sides produced witnesses who appeared unreliable . |
| 19 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 20 | FRENCH police claim to have uncovered a £50 million money-laundering operation at the weekend after becoming suspicious of Japanese businessmen who appeared uninterested in profit , writes Tim Witcher in Paris . |
| 21 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |
| 22 | He remembered the Ashleys , who appeared unstoppable in their ascendancy , and this time Laura , together with Bernard , agreed to have a documentary made solely about them . |
| 23 | There could be no doubt of Sidney 's perturbation ; he looked anxiously at his wife and was clearly relieved to see that she appeared unconcerned . |
| 24 | Twelve years old , hopeful and wholesome as a morning daisy , she appeared one Wednesday on the Wogan Show and told a nation with honesty and enthusiasm how she had sailed across the Atlantic in her Optimist . |
| 25 | She wanted to turn tail and run , but she could n't have stood herself if she appeared such a coward . |
| 26 | He seemed intent now on pushing to see how far he could go and she appeared willing to give way in everything in order to pacify . |
| 27 | Inwardly she may have been nervous , outwardly she appeared calm , relaxed and ready to have fun . |
| 28 | With Jenny she was evasive and unforthcoming ; and she wondered sometimes whether she appeared unfriendly and withdrawn , and whether she had hurt Jenny by her attitude . |
| 29 | She appeared mesmerised , as if unable to put it down ; her eyes were staring and her face deathly white . |
| 30 | Even through her veil she appeared beautiful but enigmatic . |