Example sentences of "[pron] appear to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an artist Robin Winters has left a riotous trail across America and Europe in the past two decades , a path strewn with paintings , sculptures , drawings in all media , writing , installations , performances and events which appear to have combined all of the above . |
| 2 | This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact . |
| 3 | No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that . |
| 4 | Also , we appeared to have caught this bear in a rare good mood . |
| 5 | No-one appears to have questioned this claim , examined the data , or checked whether any experiment had even been done . |
| 6 | Occasionally they appear to have had some direct influence on the formulation of the documents — the particular mention of the Anglican communion in the decree on ecumenism for example , as of the ‘ hierarchy of truths ’ — and their advice was sought , at least by the Unity Secretariat ( whose guest they were ) on religious freedom . |
| 7 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 8 | Multi-faceted influences have also clearly been poured into the Glebov melting pot , although he appears to have assimilated these with rather greater surety than Smolsky , who is very much the stylistic chameleon in comparison . |
| 9 | He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun . |
| 10 | He appears to have had some doubts about the establishment of the Protectorate , but accepted the reassurances of the Admiralty secretary , Robert Blackborne . |
| 11 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 12 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 13 | On overturning a Tory majority last time of 2,639 , he appeared to have taken all the Labour gain from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 14 | Although it must be acknowledged that there is a danger of deliberate under-recording , the emphasis placed by the course on the value and importance of being honest with oneself appears to have resolved this problem . |