Example sentences of "appear to have have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile .
2 The stone circles appear to have had some sort of tradition of dancing , perhaps associated with these key times .
3 They appear to have had metal destination boxes at first , soon replaced by wooden ones like 46–55 .
4 Each of the major kingdoms appear to have had such trading centres in the eighth century ( Hodges 1982a ; Biddle 1976 ) , even an inland centre such as Northampton was a royal centre and is also described as a trading centre .
5 It is easy for many candidates such as one of those quoted above to criticise headhunters : they feel they have no need for them , because of the nature of the internal communications network at Lloyd 's and because recent changes in the City and the resulting increased need for various financial specialists appear to have had no impact on Lloyd 's insurance jobs .
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 Rhineland potters who now supplied Britain with samian , but on a much reduced scale , appear to have had a limited figure repertoire .
8 Some appear to have had gas bladders like the Portuguese Man O'War .
9 Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood .
10 We have been active with others in emphasising the vital importance of developing a more sustainable lifestyle in the run-up to the Earth Summit , though our efforts appear to have had only limited effect , judging by the attitude of our political leaders .
11 All three pavements appear to have had rosettes in the small squares which lie tangent to the central square .
12 The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff .
13 While high US labour costs and productivity appear to have had roughly offsetting effects , leaving the share of profits similar in the United States to elsewhere , the output-capital ratio was much higher in the USA , suggesting very efficient organization of production ( including shift-working ) .
14 Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence .
15 ‘ The Budget does not appear to have had a positive effect on the attitudes of the consumer towards the market and investment . ’
16 Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons .
17 Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked .
18 But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house .
19 He hunted , mostly with peregrines , on the Cairnmore estate , including the Oa , Ballivicar , Glenmachrie , Leorin and Kilbride , and would appear to have had considerable success .
20 While the politics of the time may have been sterile , it does appear to have had more than its share of colourful characters ; bogus radicals like A.P.T.James and Chanka Maharaj ; the legendary and fabulously wealthy Bhadase Maraj , who was an American-style ward boss ; Norman Tang , whose mastery of the ‘ art ’ of inscrutability made it possible for him to ‘ develop the reputation of being the only minister never accused by the Civil Service of political interference ’ .
21 Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes .
22 The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) .
23 The Church of Ireland appears to have had this in mind when it invited the well-known English Roman catholic marriage consultant , Dr Jack Dominian , to provide a report on divorce for the Church of Ireland General Synod .
24 Behind the desk , the receptionist appears to have had a late night .
25 Viscount Eversley , who as Charles Shaw-Lefevre had just retired as Speaker , like the Duke of Buccleuch , appears to have had few qualifications to enable him to assess the competition and in the end , like the Duke , was not involved in the final outcome .
26 Situated in Kirkgate , adjacent to the Parish kirk , with the kirkyard as its only playground , the low cottage appears to have had only one room , or two at most , in which about thirty pupils of varying ages and stages of education were taught by two teachers .
27 One envies Saint Teresa of Avila ( 1957 , pp.23–4 ) , who appears to have had conviction and commitment almost from birth :
28 It is often necessary to drive with close attention to the car in front , especially if the driver appears to have had a little too much wine or is having a highly excited conversation with his fellow passengers and waving his arms about .
29 As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions .
30 If the source of ivory was elephant ( MacGregor 1985 ) , Indian or African , a larger number might be expected in Kent which appears to have had a dominance over many of the goods imported from the Continent and Mediterranean .
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