Example sentences of "[pron] appears to have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The count himself appears to have been anxious for an English husband for his daughter , and negotiations opened for her marriage to Edward III 's fourth son , Edmund Langley . |
| 2 | This , however , was the only contradiction which appears to have been solved by the 1960s . |
| 3 | Sir : I was interested by your juxtaposition of ‘ Poll predicts 42-seat majority for Labour ’ with ‘ Tories hold on ’ ( 30 September ) , the latter referring , of course , to the Conservative victory in Wandsworth , the significance of which appears to have been almost totally ignored by the media . |
| 4 | How can Greece , the birthplace of Classical architecture , justify a mirror-glass box with spindly steel pavilions , or the Vatican another exercise in plate glass which appears to have been spawned by Texas Homecare ? |
| 5 | Asda , which appears to have been the subject of an extraordinary — but unsuccessful — ramp on Tuesday , edged on ½ to 31½ after a huge 10m share cross trade between brokers . |
| 6 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 7 | The list included the JONA 22 self-launching aircraft which appears to have been an Italian invention — did it ever get to the production or prototype stage ? |
| 8 | Patterson 's account of Belfast shows characteristics of conservative rural Scots lexical distribution , much of which appears to have been residual and is now obliterated by restructuring . |
| 9 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 10 | In their second petition , which appears to have been written by Chidley , they justified their political activity on the basis of ‘ our creation in the image of God , and of an interest in Christ equal unto men , as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this commonwealth . ’ |
| 11 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 12 | The so-called ‘ branch plant syndrome ’ has focused attention on the performance of the indigenous sector , which appears to have been far less successful . |
| 13 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 14 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 15 | This linen cloth , some 4.25 m in length , bears the shadowy image of the front and back of a man who appears to have been scourged and crucified , and it is therefore believed to have been Christ 's burial shroud . |
| 16 | After a five-minute standing ovation , Rune , who appears to have been asleep throughout , raises a hand to still the multitude . |
| 17 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 18 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 19 | And she appears to have been completely classless . |
| 20 | Of the many Deeds performed by Hercules only one appears to have been recorded on a British beaker . |
| 21 | In 1953 there was a move to ‘ modernise ’ the Peppard trophies but nothing appears to have been agreed , for today the old ‘ Taylor Cup ’ is unchanged and clearly dated 1895 , its winners listed from that date . |
| 22 | Although the two companies hinted that further products might in future be ported to Solaris , nothing appears to have been agreed so far . |
| 23 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 24 | This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land . |
| 25 | The timing question aside , there appears to have been basic agreement between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson on the need to defend sterling . |
| 26 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 27 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 28 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 29 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 30 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |