Example sentences of "can appear to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient wants to keep still but the pains can be so severe that they must move so sometimes they can appear to be restless . |
| 2 | It can appear to be totally dominated by technology and moreover it is expensive . |
| 3 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 4 | In the early stages of maturity the fruit of a pure Chardonnay Champagne ( ie , a blanc de blancs ) can appear to be understated and cut by a certain ‘ steely ’ character , the deceiving taste of undeveloped and unharmonious extract . |
| 5 | Two groups of animals can appear to be distantly related because of their size and body shape , and begin to diverge and then become similar in form much later because both share the same way of life . |
| 6 | Within families the complexity and inter-relatedness of expectation and need can appear to be a perplexing and entirely confusing maze . |
| 7 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 8 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 9 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |
| 10 | The result of this is that linguistic variation and change can appear to be unidimensional . |
| 11 | For example , within a particular phoneme class , social groups can appear to be differentiated by greater or lesser preference for one particular phonetic realization of a single sound-segment . |
| 12 | Many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions , but fail to perceive the often unanticipated consequences of their arrival on the lives of the local inhabitants , and even an oversensitivity of the need to spread goodwill around the village can appear to the locals to be both patronizing and unnecessary . |
| 13 | Thus a drive with 1660 tracks , 4 heads and 33 sectors per track can appear to the computer to have 8 heads and 830 tracks . |
| 14 | Other useful words here are , " evidently " , " rather " , " somewhat " , " generally " , " on the whole " , " can appear to " and " arguably " . |
| 15 | Er and that means that the president 's attention is both diverted from substantive concerns and it also means the president , there 's a limitation on the extent to which the president can appear to be partisan . |
| 16 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |