Example sentences of "appear to have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
2 So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect .
3 One of the important lessons I think to learn is that the choice of course , which tends sometimes in situations of high demand to be too related to supposed vocational use , so we notice for example that there is increasing demand for courses which appear to have a vocational content , can sometimes lead to disadvantage .
4 These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate .
5 Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it .
6 On the other hand , the HMI 's nine areas of experience , although offering an interesting alternative , appear to have a certain arbitrariness about them , especially when one ( technological ) is added with no explanation as to why .
7 People assume , the British especially , who appear to have a unique talent for combining sentimentality and intellectual evasion , that conflict , even massacre , is in no one 's interest .
8 In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) .
9 Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence .
10 Magnetic and optical media appear to have a shorter life .
11 How does a model in which CD45R0 memory cells appear to have a shorter lifespan accord with the long persistence of immunological memory ?
12 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
13 Most CABx can identify local groups which appear to have a particular need for assistance , and NACAB policy is to encourage bureaux to cater for such special groups .
14 Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance .
15 Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure .
16 In front of the all-seeing eye of the TV camera , he did not appear to have a firm grasp of America 's problems or a clear understanding of where he wanted to go .
17 But he does appear to have a low opinion , deep suspicions if you like , of a person or persons in the Pentagon . ’
18 If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success .
19 Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another .
20 With hindsight , bearing in mind particularly the fatal events leading to Munich and the Second World War , Nizan 's gloomy prognostication might appear to have a certain validity .
21 The education convener , Mervyn Rolfe , said that although Tayside did not appear to have a greater bullying problem than elsewhere , anything which impeded a pupil should be tackled swiftly and methodically .
22 In this particular case , the commanding officer who , to the Pentagon 's distress , would appear to have a human side to his nature , has elected to take twenty-four hours off .
23 Things can appear to have a different significance if you view them from a different vantage-point .
24 ( Non-autistic mentally-retarded children would appear to have a different kind of problem . )
25 The sentence does not appear to have a semantic controller ; that is to say , there is no evidence of privileged status for either subject or predicate in respect of semantic relations between sentences .
26 The early dimetrodon , as we have seen , did appear to have a cooling device on its back , with the spines helping to increase the creature 's surface-to-mass ratio .
27 Middlesbrough are in with a fine chance of that second automatic promotion spot , especially as they do not appear to have a difficult run-in .
28 Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home .
29 Thus , an illness that tends to require frequent short spells in hospital will appear to have a high incidence .
30 One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility .
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