Example sentences of "[noun] appear to have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1986 and 1991 American states appear to have shut four landfills for every one they opened or expanded . |
| 2 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 3 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This unrest is sometimes seen in terms of the class war , but strictly speaking this is unlikely to have been the case , since the rebels appear to have included dispossessed aristocrats . |
| 7 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | OLDHAM 'S attempt to capture Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar appeared to have failed last night . |
| 9 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 10 | Major geographical changes appear to have caused widespread extinctions by the destruction of habitats . |
| 11 | However , economic trends and social security changes appear to have undermined these strategies . |
| 12 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 13 | The definitions in the Regulations appeared to have taken full advantage of the enabling power and did not exclude any class of payer . |
| 14 | These conciliatory figures were profoundly disturbed by the bitter armed conflict of the 1640s , and the Royalist Falkland appears to have committed virtual suicide on the battlefield at Newbury in 1643 . |
| 15 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 16 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 17 | Indeed , in its newsletter , Good Practice , it says that the ‘ current economic recession appears to have dragged high-earning professionals of all disciplines into its maelstrom ’ . |
| 18 | The stone circles appear to have had some sort of tradition of dancing , perhaps associated with these key times . |
| 19 | Which is that Quinn appears to have established some kind of wary empathy with this animal Zack . |
| 20 | Those schools which had built up a good resource collection appeared to have allocated additional capitation to the school library or to have raised extra funds from other sources . |
| 21 | The therapeutic possibilities of the inhibitory substance appear to have received little attention from Fleming . |
| 22 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 23 | But earlier this month , the PAC appeared to have abandoned armed struggle when it agreed to attend next month 's renewed multi-party constitutional talks . |
| 24 | His words to Osman appeared to have had some effect . |
| 25 | At the Nov. 26 meeting , however , the Irish government appeared to have relaxed this stipulation , according to Guardian of Nov. 27 . |
| 26 | Nationalist Party supporters of Cojuangco appeared to have won 48 seats in the House , and the Liberal Party was thought to have won 15 . |
| 27 | Above all , where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers . |
| 28 | Where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers . |
| 29 | It followed a stormy and agonized debate , but Landsbergis 's stated support for the moratorium appeared to have swayed many deputies . |
| 30 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |