Example sentences of "[noun] appear to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 2 | None of the theses in the present study appear to have any paradigmatic effects on geology , but many have had accretionary effects , with evidence fitting into major syntheses , such as Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , ( 3rd ed , 1991 ) , and cited in that source . |
| 3 | All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience . |
| 4 | While protectionism as a transnational political force appears to have little likelihood of success in the forseeable future , the threat of it is ever present as a reminder that the orderly progress of global trade in the interests of the TNCs has to be maintained and those who transgress will be punished . |
| 5 | These schools appeared to have several things in common : first , each could be characterized as an ‘ innovative ’ school in some sense . |
| 6 | Even accepting that executive directors are now required to give their full-time attention to company affairs , the law appears to have little role to play in ensuring that the board engage in proper long-term planning or respond vigorously to changes in the business environment . |
| 7 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 8 | Combat is competitive , with the opposing planes appearing to have more ‘ Artificial Intelligence ’ than normal — eg using counter measures against your missiles etc , but again these aircraft do not seem to have their own ‘ character ’ . |
| 9 | Repeated calls for restraint had been made by the ANC and Inkatha local and national leaderships , urging observance of the Jan. 29 joint peace appeal [ see pp. 37951-52 ] , but such appeals appeared to have little effect . |
| 10 | This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK . |
| 11 | The idea of travelling between areas to take advantage of shorter waiting times appears to have some public support as Leathard ( 1990 ) quotes a survey which suggests that 40 per cent of people would go anywhere in the country to avoid waiting for treatment . |
| 12 | Those involved are attempting to come to grips with the injustices , the inequalities and the prejudices of a political system in which the practice of representative democracy appears to have little relevance to their plight as they battle against the social and economic problems briefly outlined above . |
| 13 | The task of condensing five thousand years of glass-making appears to have little deterred the contributors of this latest offering from the British Museum . |
| 14 | Their absence appeared to have little to do with employees ' dissatisfaction . |
| 15 | Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers . |
| 16 | Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences . |
| 17 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 18 | Disconcertingly , the human world appears to have less reality for him , if anything , than the world of buildings and objects . |
| 19 | In fact , Lynn Setterington 's quilt , with its motifs sketched in tiny running stitches appeared to have more in common with the Bangladeshi Kantha tradition , or Northumbrian quilts , than the clothes of the British aristocracy . |
| 20 | The counsellor can also suggest the intervention of non-conventional or alternative medical practitioners , especially for those problems for which conventional medicine appears to have little or no answer . |
| 21 | On the face of it , the market appears to have many of the features of a contestable market , that is , one where competitive conditions are maintained regardless of the market structure , due to the threat of new entry . |
| 22 | This latter option appears to have some attraction for Fforde , for in his conclusion he seems to agree with the Thatcherite premise that pre-1979 Conservatives , by accommodating themselves to collectivist reforms rather than reversing them , abandoned their principles and surrendered to the so-called ‘ ratchet ’ effect of creeping socialism . |