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

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1 The automatic recognition of handwriting is necessary as a natural mode of communication with computers , and appears to be appropriate for a number of applications .
2 The practice , which I gather is fairly widespread in Africa , appears to be effective in warding off anaemia , presumably due to a high iron concentration in the mud .
3 Some of that evidence , it might be said in parenthesis , appears to be adverse to the appellants .
4 It appears to be futile in that inevitably one finds oneself conceiving something else .
5 According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English .
6 This was necessary because BSkyB scrambled the material using Videoguard , a new scrambling system which appears to be halfway between VideoCrypt and EuroCrypt .
7 For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds .
8 Stylistically , the pavement from North Leigh appears to be halfway between those of building XIV , 2 , Cirencester ( the all-over pattern ) and the mosaic of room 9 , Tockington Park .
9 Primary ADP-induced aggregation requires fibrinogen ( Niewiarowski et al , 1971 ) , which appears to be involved in early transitory interactions between platelets ( Mustard et al , 1978 ) .
10 This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose .
11 Additionally the full length product spanning repeats 10–13 was observed only in tumor cell lines , particularly in U251 mRNA although its occurrence appears to be rare in the different cell lines tested .
12 What appears to be stable in interpretations of here ( apart from curious usages deriving from long-distance telephonic communication and long-distance travel , discussed in Lyons , 1977 ) is that the deictic centre is located where the speaker is .
13 Althusser 's conception of a structure in dominance is based on the sense , which he attributes to Marx , that in each society one particular kind of interest appears to be central in determining the character of that society as a whole ; for example , economic interests are uppermost in capitalist society , but during the Middle Ages religious concerns dominated social life .
14 The only member of the surrogacy team who appears to be unscathed by financial considerations is the obstetrician .
15 The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) .
16 But their role in relation to fertility , on one hand , and wisdom on the other , according to the application , appears to be consistent throughout the country .
17 However , when and , the space-time appears to be regular for all , and the singularity caused by the mutual focusing of the two waves appears to have been removed .
18 His first appearance in surviving records appears to be late in 1249 , when he was appointed the abbot of Westminster 's attorney for litigation in the Common Bench .
19 ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it .
20 This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) .
21 The pathogenesis of this finding is not known but it appears to be unrelated to any effect of the diabetic state on platelet prostacyclin receptors as prostacyclin binding appears to be normal in diabetic platelets ( Shepherd et al , 1983 ) .
22 Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company .
23 I am not convinced that what is going on is a ‘ compensatory ’ secondary circuit of capital parallel to industrial production , but something is happening with residential and retail land development which appears to be separate from industrial production .
24 O. notata appears to be similar to O. parcita , O. lineata , and O. metallacta , see Table 1 .
25 The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy .
26 Both NCp15 and NCp7 proteins have been detected in HIV-1 virions ( 4 ) and the generation of mature NC protein appears to be necessary for virion formation and specific packaging ( 5 ) .
27 There will be the ever present risk of sexual blackmail , since although homosexuality appears to be compulsory in the Diplomatic Service , we believe our forthright and thrusting working-class boys will achieve greater penetration in Diplomatic circles .
28 The Loss Adjuster and the branch should not be afraid to challenge the proposed course of remedial work where the Consulting Engineers are recommending remedial work which appears to be well in excess of what is required to stabilise the property .
29 As Mr. Glick showed Campbell v. Hall , 1 Cowp. 204 which appears to be favourable to Woolwich was really concerned with constitutional issues rather than with the present question .
30 hamatum , has a cohabitant species of staphylinid beetle , but in this case the ant appears to be immune to its guest 's fungal disease .
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