Example sentences of "appears [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar .
2 The only truism appears to be that the smaller the town the greater the extent of the exchange .
3 Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade .
4 The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands .
5 The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans .
6 The heart of the problem appears to be that this institutional framework is itself founded on a conventional gesellschaft- type representative model .
7 The reason for this appears to be that the territories occupied by red-winged blackbirds in these marshes vary enormously in their quality , specifically in the amount of food they contain .
8 The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals .
9 The government position appears to be that if teacher trainers spend enough time in schools , and if student teachers spend enough time alongside experienced ones and their newly expert trainers , the requisite skills will hopefully be acquired by some kind of osmosis .
10 The answer to the key question — what applications will it run — appears to be that it will run unmodified character-based MS-DOS applications , and converted Mac applications , to the extent that any developers are prepared to convert them , and will run on iAPX-86 processors from the 80386 up .
11 The Rapporteur was notably unenthusiastic about this text ‘ que nous n'estimons pas très heureux ’ ; its effect appears to be that a Contracting State can enter an objection to the modes of service provided for in Article 10 ( which would otherwise be available in respect of all Contracting States ) but allow their use in respect of particular , and perhaps especially neighbouring , states .
12 The proper conclusion appears to be that no single theory can underlie all potential agency situations , and that these must be examined on a case by case basis .
13 The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population .
14 The only difference appears to be that in the one case there is consent and in the other there is not .
15 It appears to be that the generally unskilled nature of the labour force helps to determine that the processes of UK industry are , by present international standards , relatively simple and low productivity ones ; the country is locked into comparatively simple technology because it does not have the technical expertise to use technology to the fullest effect .
16 The answer appears to be that such was the traditional day for the ploughman from time immemorial when his team was made up solely of oxen .
17 It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute .
18 But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing .
19 The basic theory therefore appears to be that the Communities are a part of the Union , but that there are aspects of the activity of the Union which fall outside the competence of the Communities ; in other words , the widening of the scope of co-operation between the governments of the Member States is not necessarily accompanied by a correlative widening of the powers of the Community or by a deepening of its institutional structure .
20 The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right .
21 The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " .
22 In a comprehensive survey , Moore and Newman ( 1985 ) note that the consensus appears to be that the free rider effect of RTW laws is negligible in terms of the impact on unionization .
23 Responses from schools following visits , and the evaluation study undertaken in 1991 , demonstrate that one of the most significant features of the vehicle programme appears to be that they are ‘ for girls only ’ , ‘ it 's special for us ’ .
24 The implication for memory research of the above research on road sign detection appears to be that even when objects have been initially detected by a driver and the driver 's behaviour has been appropriately modified by their presence , the driver may not be able to describe the object even very shortly afterwards .
25 While these forms of subsidy are not exhaustive , a consistent message appears to be that a cash transfer is the most efficient way of increasing the welfare of the recipient ( i.e. , for any given transfer , welfare of the recipient may increase to a greater extent ) .
26 It appears to be that it 's off the rails
27 In late twentieth century Moscow , the danger appears to be that the collective record of the Russian and other Soviet peoples may simply ebb away electron by electron ( Moiseenko 1993 ) .
28 The best guess appears to be that the debris are fragments of hydroids — an aquatic plant which resembles grass in appearance and which grows on rocks and inside open pipes .
29 Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales .
30 SIB 's concern appears to be that the OTC market is almost completely unregulated and , perhaps more important , that OTC futures are non-standard contracts which can not therefore easily be closed out .
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