Example sentences of "appear [to-vb] been a " in BNC.

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1 He said there did not appear to have been a break-in .
2 Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick .
3 In this respect the article would appear to have been a success .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 He does not appear to have been a particularly well-educated man .
9 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 .
10 The development would appear to have been a success and for the winter timetable an early morning Aberystwyth to Birmingham train will run daily .
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