Example sentences of "appears to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief marshal notified to the police appears to have been inexperienced and relatively ineffective . |
| 2 | Whatever the base we take , yesterday 's education always appears to have been golden . |
| 3 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 4 | In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed . |
| 5 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 6 | If the success of the service is measured against an economic criterion , it appears to have been partial , at least in its early years . |
| 7 | This patient also showed speech limited initially to simple words and phrases during the early post-operative period but her auditory comprehension appears to have been good ( Gott , 1973 ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 9 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 10 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 11 | After a five-minute standing ovation , Rune , who appears to have been asleep throughout , raises a hand to still the multitude . |
| 12 | The count himself appears to have been anxious for an English husband for his daughter , and negotiations opened for her marriage to Edward III 's fourth son , Edmund Langley . |
| 13 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 14 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 15 | This interesting scheme has been described in detail by Challis and Davies ( 1987 ) and appears to have been successful on economic , social and psychological measures . |
| 16 | The operation appears to have been successful , and none of the vaccinated elephants has shown any symptoms of the disease . |
| 17 | Communication between Raistrick and Fleming appears to have been minimal . |
| 18 | Detectives say the stabbing in the stomach of an 18-year-old youth at Shotton Colliery , near Peterlee , appears to have been motiveless . |
| 19 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 20 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 21 | With hindsight the confidence with which the demise of dualism was predicted appears to have been premature . |
| 22 | One aspect of the landscape revolution which this entailed appears to have been major drainage works , which drastically modified the stream between the two villages , to create what is now known as the Maxey Cut . |
| 23 | The LEA , then , appears to have been interventive on matters which schools themselves ought to have dealt with , and laissez-faire on other matters in which it had a wholly legitimate interest . |
| 24 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 25 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |
| 26 | In 1959 the Conservative Party had been in power for eight years , but ‘ decency ’ appears to have been safe in their hands . |
| 27 | But Chancellor Kohl appears to have been startled by suggestions that his letter to President Mitterrand last week implying an intention to go slow on EMU might have been inspired by a desire to play the German unity card in the West German general election next year . |
| 28 | Patterson 's account of Belfast shows characteristics of conservative rural Scots lexical distribution , much of which appears to have been residual and is now obliterated by restructuring . |
| 29 | On the Medway estuary in Kent , raised banks built by the Romans to keep out the sea lasted substantially until the eighteenth century , and the extent of Roman reclamation appears to have been formidable . |
| 30 | He appears to have been unmarried . |