The phrase "appear instrumental" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that seems to play a significant role or function in a particular context or situation.
Example: "The new policy changes appear instrumental in improving employee morale and productivity."
Alternatives: "seem crucial" or "appear pivotal".
Avoid putting on a show or publicizing these efforts to benefit yourself — once you appear instrumental in these efforts, your sincerity and credibility evaporate.
Functional compensation could occur to counteract the loss of one allele in GRIN2C and GRIN3 family genes, whereas GRIN1, GRIN2A, GRIN2B and GRIN2D appear instrumental to normal brain development and function.
New York City has three policy elements that appear instrumental to their success.
Interactions between selected kinases and intermediate filaments appear instrumental in regulating signaling toward apoptosis.
This acknowledgement that more than California cool kids like him mattered now appears instrumental to the Second Coming of Snapchat.
In addition, clustering of syndecan-4 has been shown to initiate signaling cascades that results in PKCα and Rac1 activation that appears instrumental for cell adhesion and directional migration [33] [37].
Highlighting the relationship between adaptive coping and low anxiety appears instrumental in preventing anxiety and negative outcomes for both mother and child.
In all these cases, it appears that instrumental conditioning serves to modify, via the law of effect, initial responses that owed their origin to Pavlovian conditioning.
Mr. Adams, contemplating the terror of nuclear Armageddon, calls on poetry: "Batter My Heart," the magnificent "Doctor Atomic" aria that appears in instrumental guise near the end of the symphony, is an incantatory setting of John Donne, an invitation to divine ravishment.
Then again, from the way she strips for some late-night nuzzling, her get-up does appear to have instrumental value, even if one misstep and she or at least an ankle would be a goner.
These upregulated miRNAs appear to be instrumental in reshaping the human brain transcriptome.
