Example sentences of "appear to have [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Major geographical changes appear to have caused widespread extinctions by the destruction of habitats . |
| 4 | The therapeutic possibilities of the inhibitory substance appear to have received little attention from Fleming . |
| 5 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 6 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 7 | Companies thus appear to have made some strides towards repairing net worth , partly as a result of responding early to signs of recession . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Following the earth sciences revolution within the last couple of decades ( Hallam , 1973 ) it is natural to investigate what relationship , if any , exists between major biogeographic , radiation and extinction episodes and plate tectonics , which appear to have controlled first order events in the physical environment for at least as long as a diverse metazoan fauna became established in the Cambrian , nearly six hundred million years ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The stone circles appear to have had some sort of tradition of dancing , perhaps associated with these key times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The people of Ghana appear to have taken this development calmly , but for White liberal friends of Ghana this seemed like the parting of the ways . |
| 16 | However , economic trends and social security changes appear to have undermined these strategies . |
| 17 | In one respect , however , Gregory does appear to have broken new ground . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If we can trust the figures which suggest that Christians tended to marry at a notably higher age than their pagan contemporaries , Christianity would appear to have reinforced these shifts towards marriage as a more personal and free partnership of equals . |
| 20 | While many groups evolved successful responses to change , some would appear to have made poor survival choices and in consequence died out . |
| 21 | We do not appear to have received this year 's Statistics Form with details of your classes , and would be very grateful if you could send it back as soon as possible . |
| 22 | Most Western economies do not appear to have reached this position . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even the United Nations Security Council , which has given thought and time to the plight of those troubled people , the Kurds , does not appear to have given any thought or time to the plight of the people in the south of Iraq , the Shia . |
| 25 | The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective . |
| 26 | Sir : Canon Oestreicher ( letter , 5 October ) would appear to have allowed political prejudice to cloud impartial judgement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |