Example sentences of "appear have no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 3 | As Buxbaum suggests , ‘ [ s ] ince takeovers appear to have no systematic impact on weak management or suboptimal resource use … takeover threats can not affect management behaviour except in an inconsistent manner . |
| 4 | Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances . |
| 5 | The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective . |
| 6 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |
| 7 | These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files . |
| 8 | Human intelligence , by its very nature , never fully accepts statements that appear to have no plausible foundation . |
| 9 | The petition must state : ( i ) the amount of the debt ( in sterling , converted from any foreign currency at the official exchange rate at the date of issue of the petition , by analogy with r 6.111 ) , the consideration for it ( or , if there is no consideration , the way in which it arises ) and the fact that it is owed to the petitioner ; ( ii ) when the debt was incurred or became due ; ( iii ) if the debt includes interest or any other charge accruing from time to time , the amount or rate of the charge ( separately identified ) and the grounds upon which it is claimed to form part of the debt provided that , in the case of a petition based upon a statutory demand , only the interest claimed in the demand is included ; ( iv ) that the debt is unsecured , and either that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable immediately and the debtor appears to be unable to pay it , or that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable at some certain future specified time and the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it . |
| 10 | If the petition is presented in respect of a debt payable at some future time , it being claimed that the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it , the court may , on the debtor 's application , order that security for the debtor 's costs be given , and no hearing of the petition can take place until the security has been given . |
| 11 | He appears to have no interpretative hang-ups about the music , nor attempts to project an individuality by resorting to mere effects and temperamental show . |
| 12 | Brown ( 1990 ) , on the other hand , uses ‘ paralinguistic ’ to include what I call ‘ prosodic ’ , and appears to have no separate term for non-linguistic vocal effects . |
| 13 | The Brook — it appears to have no official name — springs from the Wealden water-shed some three miles west between Swanage and Corfe Castle and flows into the sea by the Mowlem . |
| 14 | Tim Corrigan , the Barman , is another somewhat colourless personality who appears to have no strong views on anything other than racing form , of which he is a devoted follower . |
| 15 | When they arrive there , they may well wonder why they have come , for Leck Fell at first sight appears to have no compelling attractions , certainly no obvious ones . |
| 16 | In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause . |
| 17 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 18 | Though ‘ poireau ’ , the French word closest in sound to the name Christie chose , with its double meanings of ‘ leek ’ and ‘ wart ’ , appears to have no obvious connection with the detective , the word ‘ poirier ’ , meaning a ‘ pear-tree ’ offers a much more fruitful area for investigation . |
| 19 | At first , he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces . |
| 20 | He was not specific and appeared to have no other projects in hand . |
| 21 | But until about 1950 , the hard core of insanity , especially the schizophrenic and the manic-depressive psychoses , appeared to have no physical basis . |
| 22 | Hand is absolutely correct , in discussing subjective ‘ assessments ’ of thesis use , in saying that ‘ The observations appeared to have no experimental basis at all , as demonstrated by the estimates for derived publications ’ . |