The phrase "appear to constitute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting that something seems to form or make up a particular thing or concept.
Example: "The findings from the research appear to constitute a significant breakthrough in our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "seem to form" or "seem to represent".
On its own, this does not appear to constitute an adequate basis for an injunction.
The population of Chatham dropped by about 2 percent from 2000 to 2009, the census estimated, and renters now appear to constitute a larger slice.
In fact, he said, as long as floor-price policies are enforced in a nondiscriminatory manner, they would appear to constitute a legitimate exercise of the board's business judgment and should not be subject to judicial second-guessing.
In London, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, told the House of Commons that the suspected plot "would appear to constitute a major escalation in Iran's sponsorship of terrorism outside its borders," British news agencies reported.
The red card means Dempsey will be automatically suspended by the US Soccer Federation for Seattle's next Open Cup game in 2016, but given the aggravating circumstances – his actions appear to constitute an assault under the federation's own rulebook – Dempsey could face as much as a three-month ban from the national team, ruling him out of the forthcoming Gold Cup.
The commission, in a letter to Mr. Giuliani's Senate fund-raising committee, said a financial report issued last fall by the committee, which had $2 million in residual assets, listed disbursements "that appear to constitute personal use of campaign funds by the candidate," which would violate federal law.
In conclusion, uniform loss of neuronal soma in the PFC does not appear to constitute the neural substrate of the pathological process in schizophrenia.
Because these neurons have synaptic contact with both afferent inputs and motor neurons and exhibit a true central activity, they appear to constitute the swallowing central pattern generator.
The action items approved at the meeting do appear to constitute a pioneering effort to bring substantive change to the culture and practice of academic science.
However, little is known about the signals and pathways leading to persister formation, although toxin/antitoxin systems appear to constitute a primary mechanism, as they can be used to induce a state of dormancy (Lewis 2008; Wang and Wood 2011).
Together the proliferative and hypertrophic regions of the growth plate and the bone primary spongiosa appear to constitute the active growth region, with concomitant changes observed that result in longitudinal growth.
