Example sentences of "it appears to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual governors are understood to be unhappy at the tax arrangements and the way it appears to have damaged Mr Birt 's credibility in the eyes of licence payers . |
| 2 | In its location there , on the Atlantic coast of north-western Spain , it appears to have received a constantly renewed nourishment and impetus through the maritime trade routes from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 3 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 4 | Falkenhayn 's precise reply has not been recorded , but it appears to have satisfied the Crown Prince and General von Knobelsdorf . |
| 5 | Even then it appears to have caused something of a religious furore , being declared by some to be a fake and by others to be the true Shroud . |
| 6 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
| 7 | It appears to have undergone reduction in the Endopterygota , though it is probably represented by the dense reticulation present in certain orders of Exopterygota such as the Odonata . |
| 8 | Now it appears to have gone off the boil . |
| 9 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 10 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
| 11 | The strong recovery in manufacturing comes at a time when it appears to have stalled in the rest of the UK . |
| 12 | The ‘ French ’ tunic , a popular alternative to the gymnastiorka , was authorised for officers in 1935 ; named after the British general of 1914 , it appears to have varied in details — some had pleated patch breast pockets , some internal pockets with external flaps . |
| 13 | If it is closely examined at this point it appears to have died from shock , but then a few moments later it may revive miraculously and fly off . |
| 14 | It appears to have included means of determining the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac , and it involved an assembly of wheels with fixed gear-ratios for the mechanization of the Metonic cycle , in which 19 solar years correspond to 235 lunar months ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 15 | When the matter came before the taxing master it appears to have proceeded on footing that erm order twenty eighty , rule four , sorry I , rule , rule twenty eighty , four sixty two er was the relevant er provision under which erm the taxing master disallowed interest . |
| 16 | But small or not , it appears to have left a nasty bite mark on her arm . |
| 17 | It appears to have put them off . ’ |
| 18 | Dr Boutros-Ghali has already said he favours the idea but it appears to have divided UN peace-keepers in Bosnia and the main UN aid agency . |
| 19 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |