Example sentences of "appear [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 2 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 3 | The implication was that the efforts to reduce the use of remands in custody , which appear to have met with some success in the last two years after the spectacular rise of the custodial remand population during the 1980s , were having unintended and unwanted effects on the crime rate . |
| 4 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 5 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 6 | These did not result from the Pleistocene glaciation ( in fact none of the ice ages of the past appear to have coincided with mass extinctions ) , but all occurred after the final retreat of the ice . |
| 7 | But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years ; they are probably continuing to do so . |
| 8 | However , the ASW role was not wholly positive : ASWs were significant in diverting women from compulsory admission , and injecting a psychosocial perspective which appears to have contributed to this diversion . |
| 9 | More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ . |
| 10 | The older boy appears to have gone through this initiation ritual , but still stands erect with arms raised in a gesture of worship and submission . |
| 11 | The vehicle appears to have remained in this condition for the remainder of its ownership by Croydon Corporation , but was rarely seen in daylight . |
| 12 | This marks a long-term trend of declining fertility which appears to have stabilised at 1.8 births per woman , below population replacement rate . |
| 13 | Above all , place what transpired last month into its right perspective , for a lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 6th appears to have coincided with some kind of an emotional conflict or watershed and you still need to face up to certain harsh realities . |
| 14 | We challenge the need for the alarm — almost panic — which the increased rate of survival of so many more people into their ninth and tenth decades appears to have evoked in some quarters . |
| 15 | The bulk of Lewis 's book is pure literary history , though its earlier chapters refer to the strange pseudo-religion of Love which appears to have originated in twelfth-century Provence . |
| 16 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 17 | Moreover , Oswiu appears to have entered into immediate relations with the papacy . |
| 18 | However , even in the hesitant phase , the planning of short clauses appears to have occurred during preceding utterances , since over 80 per cent of four-word clauses did not contain a pause in initial position , and nearly 75 per cent of three-word clauses did not contain any pauses at all . |
| 19 | Only limited continental subduction appears to have occurred at this stage . |
| 20 | Inbreeding appears to outweigh crossbreeding in many stocks of arctic plants , a condition that may be adaptive in a harsh environment where interspecific competition is insignificant . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , local influences continued to affect voting behaviour , while about four-fifths of the voters appeared to vote according to national party preferences , the remainder did not . |
| 22 | As a result there were a number of unsatisfactory features of arts projects which appeared to have arisen from this lack of knowledge . |
| 23 | But the words remained unspoken , and again he appeared to have lapsed into deep thought . |
| 24 | Detectives said the fire appeared to have started in several places at once . |
| 25 | Last-minute amendments curbing some of the President 's powers of veto over legislation and of authority to impose states of emergency as set out in the draft law appeared to have won round many opponents . |