Example sentences of "appears to have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 She said , ‘ She appears to have asked for her letters back .
2 If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed .
3 It was only in the days of the first widespread alphabetic culture that the idea of ‘ logic ’ appears to have arisen .
4 Although she has deplored leaks — and instituted more leak inquiries and prosecuted more civil servants for breaches of confidentiality than any of her predecessors her press office appears to have developed the technique of leaking against fellow Cabinet ministers to a fine art .
5 Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies .
6 Functional assessment appears to have developed to avoid the limitations of other traditions of diagnosis .
7 Whilst it does not have the theological aims of the NVALA , the NFoL/CARE or the OCU , it still appears to have developed in response or opposition to many of the same social trends highlighted by those other groups .
8 Indeed certiorari appears to have developed to control this very type of error .
9 In Scotland , the law appears to have developed differently .
10 Goldney garden , which appears to have developed to the whims and fancies of the women in the family , has the first two characteristics but not the last .
11 It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts .
12 Atkinson 's planning appears to have influenced Burn considerably , Blairquhan having the same stepped relationship of asymmetrical main block and a private wing ending in a low tower , a formula which was to be repeated in many Burn houses .
13 The flood disaster in July , which left 20 million hectares underwater , killed more than 2,000 people and made 1 million homeless , appears to have swayed Chinese officials to include the project in the next development plan .
14 The ‘ Hitler Wave ’ of publications during the 1970s appears to have contributed to renewed and open glorification of Hitler on the extreme Right .
15 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 .
16 However , this strategy appears to have contributed to a more rapid decline in services ( and sometimes to population losses ) in more remote areas outside the selected settlements ( Hancock 1976 ; McLaughlin 1976 ; Cloke 1979 ) .
17 Debt-laden Tustin , California-based business systems supplier MAI Systems Corp appears to have hit a credit crunch according to the German weekly Computerwoche .
18 Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation .
19 No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that .
20 At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me .
21 Naive Prober appears to have done well , since it has obtained 5 points from that move .
22 The reduction in base rates from 15% to 10% appears to have done relatively little for supply growth , since it has coincided with a gradual downgrading of recovery prospects by most analysts .
23 the government appears to have done nothing .
24 He was certainly performing this service in 1729 , towards the end of Campbell 's life , drawing out designs for works at Studley Royal , Yorkshire , and he appears to have done so previously .
25 The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing .
26 That is why talks with GM are rumoured to have been more extensive than those with Ford , which appears to have adopted a more aggressive stance .
27 It conceals , both in Adrian Bromley himself and the enterprize he controls , a powerful dynamic which , in a relatively short period of time , appears to have created the potential to make it something of a jewel in the crown of the C&P operations .
28 Little enough of the borough 's wealth appears to have filtered down to the townsfolk .
29 One of the first of these , treading closely on the Holmes ; heels , was Arthur Morrison , author of two novels still current , A Child of the Jago and The Hole in the Wall , who appears to have built his Martin Hewitt , private investigator , almost as an exact opposite of Holmes .
30 Certainly his authority was not recognized by Gundobad 's uncle , Chilperic , who appears to have regarded support for him as treasonable .
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