Example sentences of "[noun] appeared to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 THE difficulties in the UK commercial property sector appeared to have claimed another victim yesterday after Surrey-based Bredero Properties announced it had breached its banking covenants , writes Richard Shackleton .
2 Two minutes before the half-hour Forest appeared to have achieved this when Pearce exchanged passes with Clough and burst clear into the penalty area on the left .
3 But the Supreme Soviet deputies rejected calls from hardliners to try to remove the 62-year-old president from office immediately and observers said Mr Yeltsin appeared to have won this round in his battle with the conservative-dominated parliament .
4 The Authority appeared to have underestimated these in its programme of INSET and support .
5 His words to Osman appeared to have had some effect .
6 At the Nov. 26 meeting , however , the Irish government appeared to have relaxed this stipulation , according to Guardian of Nov. 27 .
7 Andrée appeared to have padded most of her edges ; she was being considerate , intelligent , serious , talking like an elder person generous with knowledge to a younger one , and Flavia ceased to feel an absurd adolescent and a target .
8 It followed a stormy and agonized debate , but Landsbergis 's stated support for the moratorium appeared to have swayed many deputies .
9 Years of social discourse appeared to have done little to relieve his prevailing impression of awkwardness and unease , his inability to small-talk .
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