Example sentences of "appears [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Kluge also appears to suffer from anglophilia .
2 ‘ German research , ’ they added , ’ appears to suffer from lack of co-ordination … insufficient information is being paid to biological experimentation … ’
3 Then Braque has capitalized on the element of ambiguity in the Demoiselles ( it is not immediately clear for instance whether the leg of the ‘ demoiselle ’ on the left is the far leg or the near leg , and the lower part of the twisted forearm of the squatting figure is left undefined ) as a means of emphasizing the flatness of the canvas he was working on : the far buttock of the Nu is connected to the foremost leg and heightened in tone so that it appears to stand in front of the nearer part of the figure ; if the outline of the neck were extended it would not join the shoulder naturalistically but pass by its outer edge , and the fact that the outline is deliberately broken allows the neck , shoulder and arm to flow into each other and fuse .
4 Degree performance in arts and social sciences appears to increase with age , peaks in the 26–30 age group , and subsequently declines .
5 A minor band of approximately 30 kDa appears to increase in abundance during differentiation and is also present in CREB immunoprecipitates ( figure 5A ) .
6 With Clovis , Frankish history appears to come of age .
7 Thus , although to the sensor all the captured energy appears to come from point P on the ground , only a proportion actually does so .
8 It does occur to Fukuyama that religion might have some sort of unease to express with all this , but he appears to conceive of religion under only two modes .
9 As we narrow down the proportion of the labour market that appears to benefit from lifetime employment in Japan , we get closer to the proportion of labour in Western countries employed by large companies who work to seniority wage profiles that offer accumulating reward for experience .
10 In both sexes criminal activity appears to peak in adolescence and early adulthood — between the ages of 14 , and younger , and 21 .
11 The formal devices of political oratory amongst the Mursi , a technologically primitive people of Ethiopia described by D. Turton ( Bloch , 1975 ) , similarly perform functions which Goody appears to restrict to literacy .
12 The same logic appears to apply in relation to the housing market , where a doubling of the stamp duty threshold giveth this year what reduced mortgage tax relief next year taketh away .
13 Arjuna is the noble shadow-puppet hero who appears to walk on air .
14 There is , moreover , one piece of evidence which appears to put beyond question the pre-eminence of Fahreddin Acemi in the period following the conquest , namely the circumcision celebration for Mehmed II's two sons , held in Edirne in 861/1457 , to which reference has already been made in the previous chapter .
15 This poses an interesting problem ; while Marx appears to deal with ideology as so much irrelevance ( e.g. the work of idealist philosophers ) , Engels suggests here that the material process that is the object of study in Marx 's later work , can be affected by ideology .
16 The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd .
17 This effect , however , appears to interact with retention interval in a way that is not necessarily consistent with repression interpretations .
18 Over 99% of the matter in the Universe appears to exist as plasma .
19 No record appears to exist of division within , or hesitation by , the District over the surrender of its providing powers in rural Bedfordshire under Chapter III of the 1924 Adult Education Regulations .
20 For Ice-T to get away with all this requires major screen charm — something he appears to have in abundance .
21 Both observers were disturbed by Gert 's laughter , ‘ which appears to ring with hysteria ’ .
22 Should theology accept the valuation which its contemporary world appears to place upon Christianity , or should it reject it ?
23 Miss Berggren 's hair appears to move in time of its own accord as James Brown 's Feel Good song plays .
24 What we can glean , though , and what Goody appears to take at face value , is some insight into how they represented themselves , such as in the statements they made about the reliability of their own accounts .
25 Indeed , the setting of money market interest rates often appears to happen by convention with no visible sign of the intermediate stages we have described .
26 He appears to operate by phone as well through personal meetings in African and European capitals , and most of his weapons never see British shores .
27 The individual appears to throw off conscience and his sense of responsibility , and repressed elements may appear in his words and behaviour .
28 Thus , working in terms of what I have called a ‘ golden thread ’ approach ( the golden thread being justification by faith ) he names the Epistle to James ( which appears to speak of justification by works ) an ‘ epistle of straw ’ .
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