Example sentences of "appear to have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ . |
| 2 | Within the post-war period , the two most enduring changes appear to have been a marked transfer from rough pasture to either woodland or farmland , and Parry et al . |
| 3 | He said there did not appear to have been a break-in . |
| 4 | Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick . |
| 5 | In this respect the article would appear to have been a success . |
| 6 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 7 | Ill-health does not appear to have been a long-lasting problem , for , with John Field , Moorcroft soon established a flourishing practice , eventually with stabling for 63 sick horses , in Oxford Street , and a further 20 stalls at a branch in Hammersmith . |
| 8 | In explaining the shape of the bargaining structure in Japan , as with the industry-wide structures in Europe and the decentralised arrangements in the United States , the wishes and expressed policies of the bargaining parties themselves would appear to have been a predominant factor . |
| 9 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 10 | He does not appear to have been a particularly well-educated man . |
| 11 | Such a conclusion is not warranted : there does not appear to have been a clearly distinguished inner group and the more important men were not always those able to leave Westminster to travel with Henry . |
| 12 | The development would appear to have been a success and for the winter timetable an early morning Aberystwyth to Birmingham train will run daily . |
| 13 | The weakness , if not incompetence , of the opposition would appear to have been an important contributory factor in Ronald Reagan 's astonishing early success in seizing control of the agenda in the manner of a Roosevelt or a Johnson , even almost of a prime minister . |
| 14 | There does not appear to have been an account taken of the of the factors that may reduce traffic on the A sixty one er and ways of ameliorating the current problems on the road which are not just a question of the volumes , but in fact the timescale it takes in fact to clear that road in the mornings . |
| 15 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 16 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 17 | It forbore from interfering in August when the funeral of a dissident cleric ( killed in what appears to have been a genuine road accident ) turned into an anti-government rally . |
| 18 | Sympathisers of the Mujahideen , who are denounced as ‘ hypocrites ’ by Teheran for their attempt to weld Marxist and Islamic ideology , later rampaged through several Iranian embassies in what appears to have been a co-ordinated raid . |
| 19 | Thus , the transfer of initiatives from a national to a regional scale appears to have been a conscious , logical policy decision by the Cambridge Board , using the example of the successful Nottingham University scheme devised by professor Peers , whom Geoffrey Hickson admired . |
| 20 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 21 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 22 | Sharpening the focus on penicillin appears to have been a gradual process . |
| 23 | There appears to have been a greater interest in orthogenesis in the earlier part of this century and writers such as Berg considered the subject in some depth . |
| 24 | The increasing processing and chemicalization of our food and drink appears to have been a major factor in the rise of chronic disease in this country in the past three to four decades by causing much chemical stress on the body and its inner metabolic balances . |
| 25 | They coincided with what appears to have been a sharp last-minute swing to the Tories — a swing of between 2 and 4 per cent in the final week of the campaign . |
| 26 | But despite what appears to have been a rotten year for everyone , books were still written , films made , and people could still summon up the energy and enthusiasm for sex . |
| 27 | The production of textiles appears to have been a widespread craft which is probably the best represented in the archaeological record . |
| 28 | There also appears to have been a decline in the output of feminist writings on art , but Abrams will be releasing American Beauties : women in Art and Literature edited by Charles Sullivan ( £25 , $29.95 ) , which includes paintings , sculptures , drawings and other works of art from the National Museum of American Art , part of the Smithsonian Institution . |
| 29 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 30 | Clearly there appears to have been a significant increase in activity across all age groups , but especially among the older age groups . |