Example sentences of "[pron] appears to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ? |
| 32 | The construction of the book follows a pattern which appears to be closely modelled upon Hegel 's Phenomenology of Spirit , though not explicitly so . |
| 33 | Trident sell the popular rippled ‘ drainpipe ’ -like material Flocor which appears to be mainly aimed at free movement of water over its surface . |
| 34 | ( 3 ) The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud . … |
| 35 | The point is a short one of statutory construction which appears to be free from authority . |
| 36 | As Mr. Glick showed Campbell v. Hall , 1 Cowp. 204 which appears to be favourable to Woolwich was really concerned with constitutional issues rather than with the present question . |
| 37 | The argument against that interpretation , which appears to be the obvious interpretation , is that under section 34(8) : |
| 38 | First , many people 's experiences are consistent with the notion of ‘ premature ’ physical ageing ; for them , ageing is characterised by a process of ‘ general deterioration ’ which appears to be more closely associated with the length of time since the onset of the impairment than with age itself . |
| 39 | There were four drawings , one of which appears to the left . |
| 40 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 41 | For non-Marxists , then , Marxist theories can never be disproved empirically because the theory can always be reworked or ‘ false consciousness ’ invoked to explain any apparent aberrant behaviour which appears to be inconsistent with the general logic of the objective laws of change which Marx originally formulated . |
| 42 | The novel opens with a page-long diatribe about the age of middlemen which appears to be the opinion of a third-person narrator but is subsequently identified as ‘ disloyal thoughts … not precisely verbalised as they turmoiled through the hazily discontented soul of Rusty Conway ’ ( 5–6 ) . |
| 43 | We are left only with the memory of fleeting colours , perhaps a small note-group which appears to be half-familiar ( like something we have heard before ) , or some spectacular moment like the boom of a gong . |
| 44 | The papillae of the jaw are more regular in shape , arrangement , and are not long , spine-like like those of O. clavigera and O. cordifera ; adoral shields have glassy tubercles in the plate matrix which appears to be absent in the other species , the ventral arm plates are broader than those of O. clavigera and O. cordifera . |
| 45 | All these cases are distinguishable from , and indeed , inapplicable to , the present , which appears to us to fall within the general rule , that a consideration past and executed will support no other promise than such as would be implied by law . |
| 46 | The Loss Adjuster and the branch should not be afraid to challenge the proposed course of remedial work where the Consulting Engineers are recommending remedial work which appears to be well in excess of what is required to stabilise the property . |
| 47 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 48 | It would be dead easy to reform the CAP at our farmers ' expense and simply shovel the money across to other farmers , which appears to be the Labour party 's proposal , but we do not share that view ; we must ensure that it is a balanced proposal and that in the United Kingdom , where we have efficient agriculture , the efficient farmer has a long-term future . |
| 49 | If that clause was taken to be a definition of the Government 's position and repeatedly referred to as an escape route , which appears to be the intention , it would fundamentally undermine confidence in the Government 's commitment to the European process . |
| 50 | Each option which appears to be attractive must be considered and designed at least in outline to see if it meets the objectives for the project . |
| 51 | These results support the hypothesis that complications in Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus develop in association with increased exposure of the oesophagus to an alkaline environment which appears to be secondary to duodenogastric reflux . |
| 52 | The only AIDS-defining opportunistic infection documented , in a few cases , in primary HIV-1 infection is oesophageal candidosis , which appears to be associated with CD4 counts between 260 and 630/L , oesophageal ulcerations , and inappropriate use of antibiotics . |
| 53 | All this is supposed to contrast with his own offering , which appears to be introduced with the words " " I speke in prose " " ( II : 96 ) although in fact his tale of a noble woman and wife , Custance ( Constance ) , is told in rhyme-royal stanzas . |
| 54 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 55 | Providing we assume that there is still contraction in one direction and expansion in the other ( which we can no longer prove but which appears to be true ) the same analysis will hold . |
| 56 | All these examples involve the first sub-maxim of Quantity , which appears to be the important one , in which the provision of full information is enjoined . |
| 57 | It is the prominent arrangement of swastika meander however , which appears to be particularly important for any suggestion of a school or group of integrally related mosaic designs . |
| 58 | It is of better quality in the Blackfriars mosaic although , here too , there is work which appears to be of different standards , ( see pls. 4a and 4b ) . |
| 59 | A report published by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) says there is an underlying trend of real and sustained improvement in the quality of coastal bathing waters , which appears to be the result of the extensive capital schemes for sewage treatment currently being undertaken by the water companies . |
| 60 | No insects and no fish have so far been found to use sonar , but two quite different groups of fish , one in South America and one in Africa , have developed a somewhat similar navigation system , which appears to be just about as sophisticated and which can be seen as a related , but different , solution to the same problem . |