Example sentences of "appear to have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many mountain belts situated along present or past plate boundaries contain numerous individual slivers of crust some of which , on the basis of palaeomagnetic and structural evidence , together with their assemblage of rock types , appear to have travelled great distances before arriving in their present positions . |
| 2 | Major geographical changes appear to have caused widespread extinctions by the destruction of habitats . |
| 3 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 6 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 7 | In one respect , however , Gregory does appear to have broken new ground . |
| 8 | Thus , while rule 80a does not appear to have caused serious damage to the spot and futures markets , it does not seem to have fulfilled its objective of promoting market stabilization . |
| 9 | While many groups evolved successful responses to change , some would appear to have made poor survival choices and in consequence died out . |
| 10 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 11 | Sir : Canon Oestreicher ( letter , 5 October ) would appear to have allowed political prejudice to cloud impartial judgement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The flood disaster in July , which left 20 million hectares underwater , killed more than 2,000 people and made 1 million homeless , appears to have swayed Chinese officials to include the project in the next development plan . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state . |
| 17 | Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI . |
| 18 | Some , like the Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , of which only a single item of evidence remains , appears to have had friendly relations with the National Sailors and Firemen . |
| 19 | Odd to give the spiritual leadership of three villages to a man about whom you knew nothing , who appeared to have received minimum training , whose fitness no one seemed concerned to have established , whose career was n't even recorded . |
| 20 | The claims appeared to have received independent confirmation from a team of Western experts , including a Belgian professor , Aubin Heyndrickx of Ghent University , which visited the area to collect samples and inspect victims . |
| 21 | The release of Mandela on feb. 11 [ see pp. 37232-33 ] also appeared to have provoked new levels of violence , particularly in faction fighting in Natal townships ; by late March some 250 people had been killed since his release , mostly in Natal and the homelands . |
| 22 | New academic library buildings and the reorganization of multi-site libraries too , appeared to have spurred academic librarians to the realization that good library guiding is a vital complement to effective library orientation . |
| 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 | The definitions in the Regulations appeared to have taken full advantage of the enabling power and did not exclude any class of payer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The five parties of the previous coalition government , dissolved on March 29 [ see p. 38114 ] , appeared to have found common ground for continuing their coalition , in power since the 1987 elections . |