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

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1 The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will .
2 Parliamentary Tickets appear to have been used to the end , although the need to supply a Parliamentary Train or trains had long passed .
3 The level sand plains appear to have been attractive to settlers throughout pre-historic and historic times ( Ritchie , 1979 ) .
4 Some of the republics appear to have been sympathetic to this idea but in the end no common citizenship of this kind was established , which was hardly reassuring ( for instance ) to the very large Russian minorities in the Ukraine and Moldavia .
5 More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe .
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