Example sentences of "[adv] appears to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the previous year Mozart only appears to have given one concert during Lent ; was he simply too busy , or was he perhaps no longer in quite such demand ? |
| 2 | Judas alone appears to have enjoyed Jesus 's confidence in the matter . |
| 3 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 4 | Whilst it does not have the theological aims of the NVALA , the NFoL/CARE or the OCU , it still appears to have developed in response or opposition to many of the same social trends highlighted by those other groups . |
| 5 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 7 | All in all President Ford faced many disadvantages , but he also appears to have lacked the mettle , the tactical know-how , the commitment to goals and the persuasive skills required for effective presidential leadership . |
| 8 | Looting also appears to have occurred on a spectacular scale . |
| 9 | Organized stealing also appears to have continued in parts of Siyane Korale in Colombo district , along the borders between Kurunagala and the North-Central Province , and between Kurunagala and Kagalla . |
| 10 | A fallacy of composition , involving the illegitimate transfer of microeconomic methods of analysis to macroeconomics , also appears to have added to the confusion . |
| 11 | By calling on his fellow socialists to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 12 | By calling on his fellow party members to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 13 | But flooding in eastern England now appears to have abated . |
| 14 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 15 | A Neanderthal burial of about 60,000 years ago , at a cave in northern Iraq , even appears to have included flowers . |
| 16 | Whatever be fact or fantasy about King Doniert , King Alfred and St. Neot , King Caradoc at least appears to have achieved renown in the land he ( supposedly ) ruled . |
| 17 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 18 | His principal patrons were the family of the dukes of Argyll , his commissions from them including Combe Bank , Kent ( c .1726 ) — his first major independent work — Whitton Place , Twickenham ( c .1732–9 , demolished ) , and his largest undertaking , Inveraray Castle , Argyllshire ( begun 1745 ) ; and this was a contact which again appears to have originated at Marble Hill . |
| 19 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 20 | She remained the faithful wife but Richard certainly appears to have had the licence to rove . |
| 21 | Iraq 's move certainly appears to have violated the cease-fire terms of UN Resolution 687 . |
| 22 | Diego Ordonez lost no time in accusing El Cid of seeking to further his own ends by laying claim to Toledo , something which Rodrigo never appears to have intended . |
| 23 | In Tharsis Sulphur & Copper Co Ltd v Loftus ( 1872 ) LR 8 CP 1 , the court ( Bovill CJ during argument ) found that the amount of an average adjustment was " in question " between the parties under the terms of their agreement to refer , and therefore appears to have concluded that the reference to the average adjuster to apportion cargo damage was the reference of a dispute . |