Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [adv] appear to " in BNC.

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1 Indeed the general levels of performance in road sign recall tasks appear to be extremely poor , even in tasks which would superficially appear to be relatively easy .
2 MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ .
3 The teaching methods in the full-time courses were centred upon projects which sought to provide a simulated work situation , to integrate what might otherwise appear to be disparate subject areas and to engender in the student independence and originality of thought .
4 Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire .
5 In carbonates preferential solution of some grain types ( e.g. Harris & kendall , 1986 ) occurs in what would otherwise appear to be a chemically homogeneous sediment .
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