Example sentences of "there appear to be a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There appears to be a bewildering array of choices of software and hardware .
2 Martin Fox , general manager of marketing at Pearl Assurance , said : ‘ In spite of the small rise in the index in March , there appears to be a general reluctance among consumers to take a view on the performance for the stock market before the General Election .
3 There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case .
4 In short the collapse of Taurus — where the name of the game was not to upset vested interests — has paved the way for a compromise where there appears to be a general acceptance of the IFMA view that : ‘ the solution to the problems are presented with a view to satisfying the requirements of the principal users , not third party service providers . ’
5 When the UK is compared with Western European economies and Japan there appears to be a strong inverse relationship between the number of economists acting as official government advisers and the rate of economic growth .
6 Currently , there appears to be a real danger that the European catalogue of titles available at the time of the planned launch in the first quarter of 1992 will be dominated by discs developed and published for the US market .
7 We can say , though , that with the at least partial collapse of the modernist perspective , there appears to be a certain potency in the post-modernist position , which takes the dominant system as given and proposes as method of critique the fragment : subversion takes the form of ‘ guerrilla activity ’ which exploits fissures and forgotten spaces within the hegemonic structure .
8 Contrary to expectations , there appears to be a broad convergence of views between the two men , even on such tricky issues as Bosnia , NATO , the EC and the GATT trade talks .
9 There appears to be a wide variety of newspapers available to the public ( even though appearances deceive ) , and it has always been possible in principle ( if not in practice ) to found a new paper .
10 In the USA in the 1990s there appears to be a wide recognition of the need to maintain the political system and these concerns are superseding previous motivations for partnerships .
11 In the posterior part of the body there appears to be a distinct mid-line streak and diagonal marks running out from it .
12 There appears to be a philosophical problem here .
13 Table 6.4 shows that there appears to be a turning point around 1960 : before then manufacturing employment , and the broader ‘ industrial ’ employment , had been growing faster than overall employment , whereas over the period 1960–64 ( which , taken as a whole , shows a rapid growth of overall employment ) the manufacturing and industrial sectors showed only a marginal growth of employment , therefore accounting for a declining share of the total .
14 Furthermore , there appears to be a total absence of dentine , which is unexpected if conodonts are vertebrates .
15 This contrasts with other regions in the province where there appears to be a small but consistent occurrence of figured mosaics between the middle and late second century .
16 ( a ) Whatever the role of individual mosaicists or groups of mosaicists was in the second century , there appears to be a long term trend in the popularity of certain designs over which control by these mosaicists was negligible .
17 There appears to be a crude fit between districts of expanding population and prosperity and egalitarian educational aspirations .
18 I say ‘ certain ’ because they do n't have to try all that hard : there appears to be a steady supply of scientists , both American and British , who , along with associates not necessarily involved in direct research at all , are perfectly willing to sell the Soviets anything they want — provided , that is , the price is right .
19 There appears to be a universal crisis in centralised decision making and considerable public alienation from bureaucracy .
20 There appears to be a clear trend allying census tracts that experienced faster revitalisation and declining deprivation prior to 1980 with subsequent public and private investment .
21 There appears to be a clear conflict between your discussions and the Sessional Order on one hand , and the priorities of the Metropolitan police on the other .
22 There appears to be a clear distinction between the causes of uplift on the western and eastern sides of the central Andes .
23 We are surprised that despite acknowledging in paragraph 45 of the draft guidance that there appears to be a finite supply of marine aggregates and that much of this will be required to supply soft and hard coastal protection schemes made necessary by predicted sea level rise through global warming , MPG6 aims to increase supply of building aggregates from this source for South Wales .
24 We are surprised that despite acknowledging in paragraph 45 of the draft guidance that there appears to be a finite supply of marine aggregates and that much of this will be required to supply soft and hard coastal protection schemes made necessary by predicted sea level rise through global warming , MPG6 aims to increase supply of building aggregates from this source for South Wales .
25 While most European countries have developed new forms of service , there appears to be a silent majority vote for the retention of the mental hospitals .
26 Unfortunately , at the present time , there appears to be a marked lack of systematic attempts to create a focus on community and rural development within formal education .
27 There appears to be a continuing strong interest in extending or formalizing existing links with other libraries and/or creating new co-operatives , presumably in order to better utilize scarce resources .
28 Nonetheless , there appears to be a different ‘ threshold ’ which triggers GP female referrals compared with other referrals , with greater emphasis on neurotic problems , fewer psychiatric primary problems and more social problems than other referrals .
29 But as regards religion , there appears to be a conceptual descent from an age of enlightenment in early childhood to one of childish lack of awareness in adulthood .
30 There appears to be a growing dissatisfaction with Rag in several universities across the country .
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