Example sentences of "[modal v] appear to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 2 | The authors of reports and memoranda are now expected to decide how what they have written should appear to the reader . |
| 3 | Modest and unsophisticated though this activity may appear to the educationist there is little doubt that it issued in some constructive change in the school , not least , one suspects , in the degree of staff cohesion . |
| 4 | However insignificant the change may appear to the surveyor its effect may be far-reaching and subsequent embarrassment can be prevented by timely confirmation . |
| 5 | Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body . |
| 6 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 7 | Many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions , but fail to perceive the often unanticipated consequences of their arrival on the lives of the local inhabitants , and even an oversensitivity of the need to spread goodwill around the village can appear to the locals to be both patronizing and unnecessary . |
| 8 | Thus a drive with 1660 tracks , 4 heads and 33 sectors per track can appear to the computer to have 8 heads and 830 tracks . |