Example sentences of "appear have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 . |
| 2 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 3 | This is not to suggest that all the anti-Hanoverian crowds were encouraged from above ; as Nicholas Rogers has shown , patrician involvement seems to have become less common after the early stages of unrest , and increasingly the riots in most areas appear to have been led from below by more lowly types . |
| 4 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 5 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 6 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 7 | Although there were no mechanical clocks in antiquity , mechanical models appear to have been constructed to reproduce the relative motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 8 | At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes . |
| 9 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 10 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 11 | ‘ The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been numbed by greed and indifference to violence ’ , asserted one MP as he condemned ‘ the parents , indifferent to their children and utterly without social conscience ’ . |
| 12 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 13 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 14 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 15 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 16 | Nevertheless great advances appear to have been made without such theory … |
| 17 | About this time licence was obtained to prospect in the Seathwaite and Dunnerdale region but no great discoveries appear to have been made . |
| 18 | These conclusions appear to have been replicated by York ( 1989 ) , who finds that community workers express more satisfaction and effectiveness in their short-term projects , which are more directive and task-oriented , than in their long-term projects . |
| 19 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 20 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 21 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 22 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 23 | Only the sediments of the carbonate mud wedges appear to have been affected by late leaching because of their proximity to organic-rich basin plain deposits . |
| 24 | Their reputations as major artists appear to have been confirmed by their strong showing ( see captions ) . |
| 25 | Until very recently , supporters of animal protection or environmental causes appear to have been motivated primarily by feelings of empathy , sympathy or personal identification with animals , especially large , appealing and anthropomorphic animals . |
| 26 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 27 | Any doubts about the wisdom of combining the worlds of Shakespearean tragedy and forensic psychiatry appear to have been blasted away by the recent performances of King Lear , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet in the special hospital by actors from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 28 | A joint French-Greek research team 's claims to have developed technology which eliminates 90 per cent of particulates emitted by diesel bus engines appear to have been borne out in tests on 110 buses in Athens . |
| 29 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 30 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |