Example sentences of "appear have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir Ralph had certain questions to ask the chaplain about stores and provisions which appear to have gone missing . ’ |
| 2 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 3 | HOUSE prices appear to have steadied according to a survey by Britain 's biggest building society . |
| 4 | To many , the world in which they appear to have lived seems to have been distanced from reality . |
| 5 | Gosling and Tillett appear to have wanted to limit the strike to London , though on tactics the latter blew , hot and cold . |
| 6 | During the eighteenth century , the older categories of difference in goods , that is locality , occupation and so forth , appear to have become overwhelmed by more flexible and creative differences . |
| 7 | In the case of Bosnasarayi , for example , the first kadi to be appointed with a mevleviyet , Molla Bali Bosnawi , was given a brief to deal with a troublesome situation created by a group of Bayrami seyhs , followers of Shaykh Hamza Bali ( Seyh Hamza Bali ) , a group who , despite stern measures by this kadi , appear to have continued to cause difficulties down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 8 | They appear to have acquired mining rights from Muncaster in that area around Tilberthwaite . |
| 9 | The local federation of ecologists , FEPG , hopes to win official protection for the baboons , who appear to have started to breed . |
| 10 | In R v General Medical Council , ex parte Colman [ 1990 ] 1 All ER 489 the Court of Appeal on one view appear to have refused to apply the restraint of trade doctrine when asked to do so by a doctor who complained that the General Medical Council ( GMC ) had refused to allow him to advertise . |
| 11 | There were magistrates who appear to have relished ordering corporal punishment , but a minority thought it inappropriate and seldom included flogging as part of a sentence . |
| 12 | He , and others , appear to have avoided mentioning the landau , possibly through ignorance of its identity , or perhaps because its subsequent delivery to Blücher inhibited reference to it . |
| 13 | Indeed certiorari appears to have developed to control this very type of error . |
| 14 | Functional assessment appears to have developed to avoid the limitations of other traditions of diagnosis . |
| 15 | Atkinson 's planning appears to have influenced Burn considerably , Blairquhan having the same stepped relationship of asymmetrical main block and a private wing ending in a low tower , a formula which was to be repeated in many Burn houses . |
| 16 | This pipe-monster appears to have decided to deliver the water . |
| 17 | In particular , in the closing months of 1967 , he appears to have attempted to use a newspaper edited by his brother Otini Kambona to express his views . |
| 18 | The accusation that poststructuralism neglects history undoubtedly harks back above all to the work of Althusser who , more than anyone else , appears to have attempted to eliminate history . |
| 19 | Franco appears to have failed to grasp the broader picture of Hitler 's strategy , either because of lack of vision , or of hispanocentric insularity , or both . |
| 20 | These operate within a crude Marxism which became the object of considerable internal criticism within Marxism ( see , for example , Gabriel and Ben-Tovim , 1978 ; Hall , 1980 ) but which appears to have failed to shift the class reductionism and instrumentalism associated with his project . |
| 21 | Neil Kinnock appears to have failed to convince the Arts Council that his party now has a wide constituency covering large sections of the middle classes , and might have business contacts . |
| 22 | The spit appears to have started growing from Aldeburgh in a southward direction at a slight angle to the coast with the end recurved towards the coast as in many of the features already discussed . |
| 23 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 24 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 25 | Roger Seelig , however , appears to have recovered having joined the board of engineering firm Norman Hay on Monday . |
| 26 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 27 | Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’ |
| 28 | Patrick was grey and blue about the mouth and he appeared to have stopped breathing and his oxygen level was low . |
| 29 | The sources said almost all the documents which had turned up appeared to have gone missing before the 1988 change . |
| 30 | A unilateral ceasefire announced by the Muslim government to coincide with the lifting of the aid boycott appeared to have reduced shelling around Sarajevo for a third day yesterday . |