Example sentences of "appear to be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , according to lawyers , the new courts are little different to the ones they replace , but they appear to be generally welcomed .
2 Cantal farms appear to be generally larger than the French average .
3 We would note that many languages have , in addition to the three basic sentence-types mentioned above , others that appear to be similarly circumscribed in use : exclamatives that are used paradigmatically to express surprise , imprecatives to curse , optatives to express a wish , and so on ( again , see Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) .
4 Unfortunately , the beginnings of utterances appear to be particularly unconstrained by either the acoustic material or the linguistic interpretation .
5 Alternatives for remainder surrendered personnel and refugees appear to be either ( a ) they should be concentrated in the area Radstadt and responsibility for their final disarmament and picketing be assigned to 12 Army Group .
6 In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case .
7 Two lines of approach appear to be most hopeful .
8 Small software and services companies appear to be most undervalued
9 Where employees have a rooted substantive knowledge of what they are doing , rather than one which is simply a certified mastery of some abstract occupational or analytical techniques , then the institutional conditions appear to be most appropriate for such an achievement .
10 But there 's no evidence that a penny has been actually paid — or that Varsov International , whose headquarters appear to be somewhere in the Caribbean , even possesses £5 million . "
11 The county council appear to be somewhere in the middle , er at around forty one thousand er two hundred dwellings .
12 Cecil and Darby appear to be equally conventional , but in one case this is rejected , in the other it is accepted .
13 Some rifts appear to be clearly related to divergent crustal movements with lateral extension being normal to the rift axis .
14 When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less .
15 Some observers have noticed that domestic cats , when hunting small birds in the garden , appear to be amazingly intelligent in one particular respect .
16 Not only did the one-second pulses appear to be closer to each other , but the humps and dips of each of those pulses — they too were closer to each other .
17 This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low .
18 The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds .
19 Appear to be partially ignoring it
20 Employers , in fact , appear to be not only ill-informed about education but relatively arbitrary in the uses to which they put it .
21 Highly theory-dependent explanations of these patterns then appear to be not much more than inspired common sense .
22 My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ .
23 Cultural attributes ( English language skills , style of life , adoption of US or European rather than local ‘ attitudes and values ’ ) appear to be just as important as more formal job skills in the promotion of women as well as men in the TNCs in developing countries .
24 They appear to be just what would be required to exploit the " chirp radar " technique .
25 The ideas of problem solving appear to be well known or obvious , but most of us will be able to recall situations where we spent hours or days on a problem whose solution was ‘ obvious ’ once we found it .
26 The authors , who appear to be well qualified to write on this topic , state that the book is intended as an introduction to the concept of non-directive play therapy .
27 In general , the items appear to be well selected to reflect a broad range of grammatical abilities .
28 ‘ We are determined to return to profitability during 1993 and I am pleased to say that overall our plans to achieve this appear to be well on course , ’ he said .
29 Some arctic species appear to be markedly temperature-sensitive in rate of growth , others less so , though low temperatures generally reduce the total biomass attained by cold-tolerant species in a single season ( Savile , 1972 ) .
30 Note that although some of the correlations calculated for this study appear to be markedly different to those observed in the Groeger and Chapman study , the difference between correlations only reaches significance in the case of the correlation between risk and normality ( z=2.64 , p<0.01 ) .
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