Example sentences of "appears to have [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment , ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. the judge appears to have been of the view that an applicant could have standing only on the basis of a personal interest and not on the basis of representing the interests of others . |
| 3 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 4 | On the evidence of inscriptions recorded in the volume , it appears to have been in the possession of Amelia , Lady Lovat , in the 17th century , and John , 1st Duke of Atholl , in the 18th century : it seems to have come into the ownership of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in the 19th century , and from there to have passed to the Wigan Free Library . |
| 5 | The scheme for a toll road from near Whitburn , West Lothian , to Douglas , Lanarkshire , appears to have been in the doldrums since the Scottish Office accepted the concept in 1990 . |