Example sentences of "appears [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is no relation between the services consumed and the costs of them to individuals , and the central government appears to wish to introduce a benefit-related tax for local authorities .
2 ‘ WONDERS ’ appears to have become the principal event in the cultural hub of the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi tri-state region .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion .
6 Now Daniel , 10 , appears to have made a remarkable recovery with just chemotherapy treatment and cancer tablets .
7 ‘ Your ankle appears to have made a remarkable recovery , ’ he said caustically , switching the subject .
8 ‘ As I say , sir , my father appears to have made a full recovery and I believe he is still a person of considerable dependability .
9 Also whilst Women 's Studies , particularly in Higher Education , appears to have achieved a certain respectability and is flourishing , Black Studies is on the decline and receives little public support from those concerned about racism .
10 Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 .
11 But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt .
12 The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads .
13 This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king .
14 His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way .
15 After Melusina she appears to have written no more poetry , and retreated further and further into voluntary silence .
16 Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ .
17 Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers .
18 Some ministers , like some clergymen and bishops in the Church of England , were extremely well paid : Parker appears to have received an annual salary of £1,700 ( nearly £60,000 in 1990 ) while Spurgeon received £1,500 .
19 If he appears to have produced a static image of Celtic society , as if the Roman impact was not yet to be observed , he must have known what he was doing .
20 Taxation appears to have taken a higher fraction of profits in the United States than in some other countries ( around one-half in the USA in 1960 as against about one-third in Japan ) .
21 But small or not , it appears to have left a nasty bite mark on her arm .
22 At the end of his life he appears to have held the prestigious title of magister militum , an office he had probably held after Ricimer 's death in 472 .
23 Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management .
24 He appears to have occupied a middle position , holding that while Gentile Christians need not be circumcised or keep traditional Jewish festivals , they should respect Jewish food laws .
25 Luca Cumani appears to have found the ideal opening for Tej Singh in the Smeeth Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Folkestone .
26 1.45:KIM Bailey appears to have found an ideal reappearance race for one of last season 's most improved chasers DOCKLANDS EXPRESS .
27 Most important of all , however , in creating a greater understanding of and attachment to the Protestant message was the regular use of the Elizabethan Prayer Book , which appears to have experienced a gradual increase in popularity as its ceremonies grew in familiarity over the course of the queen 's reign .
28 Now he appears to have performed a spectacular U-turn .
29 Behind the desk , the receptionist appears to have had a late night .
30 Though we can not imagine that Innocent wrote all these , he appears to have had a close relationship with his chancery .
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