Example sentences of "would appear to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For accountants who can make it to any of the superstores ( research shows that customers travel some distance but telesales are available to any destination in the UK ) , whether they are sole practitioners or part of a larger group , the benefits would appear to be great .
2 If so , Pyro has an action under the Act as personal injuries are covered by the Act ( s. 5(1) ) and none of the defences would appear to be relevant , unless Pyro is held to be contributorily negligent , when his damages would be reduced .
3 From another perspective , however , his comments would appear to be anachronistic , reflecting far more the sectarian , persecuted mentality of 1928–32 , than the popular front attitude of post-1934 .
4 It would appear to be similar in principle to electro-acupuncture .
5 Expressing such views requires courage because it would appear to be taboo to talk about protecting fee income .
6 Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 .
7 Unless monetary payment is to pass from the wife to the husband ( for instance , as in a case where the house is in the husband 's sole name and the husband and wife agree that it is to be transferred to husband and wife and held by them upon certain trusts provided the wife pays the husband a sum of moneysee Chapter 7 ) , when the husband may require such money for his own purchase of another property , a contract between the parties would appear to be unnecessary .
8 Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) .
9 The decision in Wilsher would appear to be consistent with this reasoning .
10 Ebenezer Scrooge would appear to be alive and well and has been reincarnated in the guise of the Court of Bank of Ireland .
11 It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) .
12 Local Liberal Party records bear him out in his assertion of this fixity of purpose and he would appear to be correct in his estimation that :
13 Neither of the above clauses would appear to be effective to prevent there being a breach , and so , if the term broken is classified as a condition , or if the breach is serious , the innocent party is entitled to terminate the contract .
14 Service of a notice of severance ( see Precedent 12 ) would appear to be effective to sever the joint tenancy if properly addressed to the other joint tenant and received at the property concerned .
15 What he hoped to build up , to activate , was a climate of opinion throughout the world in which the armaments of the powers , based upon ideological arguments , would appear to be absurd .
16 If Donovan is correct a bite during love-making would appear to be actual bodily harm .
17 This pattern of findings would appear to be impossible to accommodate from the viewpoint of phenomenology .
18 Many other contributing factors would appear to be necessary .
19 While there are problems if cattle and sheep are allowed to overgraze pasture , there would appear to be ample evidence to suggest that grazing cattle and sheep on natural grassland can be beneficial to maintaining an ecological balance .
20 The real loss would appear to be substantial .
21 It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue .
22 The optimal reproductive strategy for a male would appear to be mature as quickly as possible , so as to achieve as many matings as possible .
23 This would appear to be unique to man .
24 However , on this criterion , content validity and construct validity would appear to be high .
25 a greater degree of uniformity in the topics covered by audit handbooks would appear to be desirable .
26 The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists .
27 This conclusion would appear to be valid except to the extent that raiders are in the habit of over-estimating the extent of likely efficiency gains , and therefore posing a threat of take-over in those cases in which , as it turns out , a bid is not cost-justified .
28 Such anthropomorphism would appear to be unjustified , but it is certainly true that association is most definitely a mental process , whether we are dealing with insects , crocodiles , birds , beasts or humans .
29 A lay person would appear to be able to do little in this direction , except perhaps check with local trade associations .
30 Of the predators , fruit pigeons were abundant on figs whose seeds are inviable thereafter , but they avoided , as in the Trinidad example , the large fruits , such as those of Dysoxylum ( Meliaceae ) , which they would appear to be able to deal with ( these fruits are dispersed by hornbills ) .
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