Example sentences of "appear to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 2 | The new volume ties that information through its comprehensive indices , but also serves as a catalogue of Monet 's drawings , sketchbooks , pastels , caricatures and curiosities , which include three tapestries woven , with his approval , from his designs , and fragments of pictures which appear to have survived the ruthless pruning which he inflicted on works of insufficient merit . |
| 3 | You certainly appear to have reached a major turning point in your career and must now think about severing unprofitable ties . |
| 4 | During their travels they appear to have developed a black variety which became extremely popular , perhaps because its natural nocturnal camouflage assisted it to become a more efficient mouser and ratter . |
| 5 | Some other forces throughout the region , if they even thought about it , appear to have turned a blind eye . |
| 6 | Rising import prices — especially in the early 1970s — appear to have played an important part in the acceleration of price rises [ Blackaby , 1979 ] . |
| 7 | So what a monumental shock to find that with ‘ Ultra Violet ’ they appear to have undergone a massive personality switch and , hey presto ! |
| 8 | The interchange of routes between operators complicates analysis , but operators in South Wales also appear to have made a net loss of some 12 per cent of mileage since 1939 . |
| 9 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 10 | The Rhineland potters who now supplied Britain with samian , but on a much reduced scale , appear to have had a limited figure repertoire . |
| 11 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 12 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 13 | Consultants Travers ' Morgan appear to have used a 1000 link computer model in the analysis for Serpell . |
| 14 | Moreover , the preliminary decisions of the Commission as to the admissibility of two cases submitted by British tax-protesters appear to have dealt a fatal blow to any remaining hopes that the European Court of Human Rights might be used as an additional forum in which to exert pressure for a change in the existing law and policy regarding tax diversion . |
| 15 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 16 | They do not cover the Mediterranean , where England does not appear to have played a substantial part in trade until at least after the accession of the Tudors . |
| 17 | Firstly , the proportion of British investment resources devoted to electricity was , if anything , low by international standards , so that , other things being equal , Britain at least would appear to have suffered no greater investment ‘ distortion ’ than elsewhere . |
| 18 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 19 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 20 | True , Mr Taylor does now appear to have safeguarded the contractual rights of players who soon will be working in the new League for their old employers . |
| 21 | Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes . |
| 22 | ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’ |
| 23 | Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked . |
| 24 | ‘ WONDERS ’ appears to have become the principal event in the cultural hub of the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi tri-state region . |
| 25 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 26 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 27 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
| 28 | Now Daniel , 10 , appears to have made a remarkable recovery with just chemotherapy treatment and cancer tablets . |
| 29 | ‘ Your ankle appears to have made a remarkable recovery , ’ he said caustically , switching the subject . |
| 30 | ‘ As I say , sir , my father appears to have made a full recovery and I believe he is still a person of considerable dependability . |