Example sentences of "appear to have [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 2 | The university 's principal , Sir David Smith , said neither ministers nor Scottish Office officials appear to have given any real thought to some of the practical implications . |
| 3 | Occasionally they appear to have had some direct influence on the formulation of the documents — the particular mention of the Anglican communion in the decree on ecumenism for example , as of the ‘ hierarchy of truths ’ — and their advice was sought , at least by the Unity Secretariat ( whose guest they were ) on religious freedom . |
| 4 | However , other Jacobite demonstrations from this time appear to have lacked much genuine support . |
| 5 | He also showed his face at some of the later Congresses , but he does not appear to have made any active contribution to any of them . |
| 6 | He did not appear to have noticed any extraordinary knowledge of Ash 's poetry in either Miss LaMotte or Miss Glover . |
| 7 | The overdose did not appear to have involved serious suicidal intent . |
| 8 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
| 9 | Tom Patey appears to have soloed this first ascent on the buttress — of the area . |
| 10 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 11 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 12 | As was suggested in a paper published last year by the 1988 Forum ( as it then was ) Mr Heseltine was sure that the Church was part of the fabric of national life ; Mr Hurd appeared to have established agreeable diplomatic relations with the Almighty ; and ‘ John Major seemed the least ‘ churchy ’ yet perhaps the most thoughtful and original ’ in discussing faith and politics . |