Example sentences of "[conj] it appear that " in BNC.

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1 A few French Commandos were making their way across the farmyard in the direction of a large barn where it appeared that someone was attempting to prepare breakfast .
2 The term of the grant is sixteen years , but where it appears that a patentee has been insufficiently remunerated , the Court may extend the term for a period not exceeding five , or , in an exceptional case , ten years .
3 First , where it appears that there has been a breach of the statutory provisions , he or she must make a report to this effect to the Prime Minister .
4 A very interesting sub-set in this category is that in which the Christian or baptismal name is followed immediately by one of like kind , as in the case of Johannes Geoffrey , where it appears that a personal name has been pressed into service as a byname .
5 This is mirrored in a survey by Bunting ( 1981 ) in the UK , where it appears that the general public hold some realistic and generally favourable views of deaf people even though there is no understanding of the language needs of pre-lingually deaf people .
6 By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies .
7 Evidence to support this general contention has been found in Warwickshire and Devon , where it appears that new building has been concentrated mainly in the major settlements of the hierarchy .
8 It is easy to see why a police officer might take the view that there is no obvious use for a time-consuming and expensive procedure such as an identity parade where it appears that the suspect is known to the witness .
9 Then , as section 2 of the 1980 Act , they have the duty , originally spelt out in section 1 of the 1948 Act , to receive a child into care where it appears that a child under 17 ‘ has neither parent nor guardian or is lost or that his parents or guardian are , for the time being or permanently , prevented by reason of mental or bodily disease or infirmity or other incapacity or any other circumstances from providing for his proper accommodation , maintenance and upbringing ; and in either case , that the intervention of the local authority under this section is necessary in the interests of the welfare of the child ’ .
10 The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued .
11 Where it appears that an item of income falls within Cases IV or V and also Case I the Revenue can choose which Case to apply .
12 From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests .
13 Although it appears that she reached a peace with her father , she found herself constrained within that relationship ; she portrays several fathers who are sympathetic , and one especially who is repugnant .
14 Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) comments that ‘ Although it appears that some six year olds can understand conventional devices such as speed lines for depicting movement , the most reliable cue is posture , as when people or animals are shown with their limbs in active positions , .
15 Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) .
16 Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family .
17 He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge .
18 On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know .
19 Although it appears that the Italian student who was the victim in the case permitted or allowed the taxi driver to take £6 from his wallet , Viscount Dilhorne ( with whose speech the other members of the House agreed ) was in no doubt that there had been an appropriation .
20 Still , the final details of the Quebec package have yet to be determined , although it appears that the province wo n't be asking these people to renounce their right to sue .
21 It is important for each nematode species that hatching should occur in appropriate regions of the gut and hence the stimuli will differ , although it appears that dissolved carbon dioxide is a constant essential .
22 Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’
23 He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens .
24 The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace , a human rights monitoring group , said that it appeared that the violence had been sanctioned to frustrate opposition to the formation of a one-party state .
25 Bloomfield states that librarians have so constructed tests on library skills that it appears that ‘ we librarians have a poor understanding of the value of the library for our students ’ .
26 To these points I must agree that it appears that the NIH has most reprehensibly sought to exploit the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) crisis to its own ends .
27 If the home starts ‘ going to pot ’ they often feel that it appears that they are ‘ going to pot , with it .
28 The bad news is that it appears that the Lundy company is not making enough money to cover its costs and is looking at ways of making the island more ‘ commercial . ’
29 This , of course , happens so quickly that it appears that the letters are displayed as a direct mechanical response to the keypress .
30 I very much regret that it appears that the Labour party 's plans for the Audit Commission may water down its effectiveness by handing control to the Labour party 's chums in the unions and local government .
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