The phrase "appear to control" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing perceptions or observations regarding someone's influence or authority over a situation or group.
Example: "The manager's decisions seem to appear to control the team's dynamics more than anyone else."
Alternatives: "seem to dominate" or "appear to influence".
For example, when you're recording, + and buttons appear to control the zoom.
Brokers and agents now appear to control the majority of the site's apartment postings.
While far from dead, Big East football does not appear to control its own destiny.
As well as the flow-stations, they appear to control vast areas of the watery swamp south of Warri.
After three days' fighting, rebels appear to control most of Maaret al-Numan, a strategically important town in Idlib province on the Damascus-Aleppo highway.
There are also some qualitative abnormalities in lipoproteins that appear to control the risk of atherosclerosis and are also associated with familial propensity.
Days after that speech, the Brotherhood's party, Freedom and Justice, swept the elections for Egypt's Parliament, where they now appear to control about half of all seats.
Other factors that contribute to the development of lupus are immune molecules, such as interleukins and interferons, that appear to control autoantibody release in response to certain stimuli.
The administration has periodically made modest moves to reach out to moderates in Iran, but President Khatami has been locked in a struggle with conservatives who appear to control the security apparatus, and the gestures have not borne fruit.
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, his deputy, sent video and audio messages from their hiding places, but did not appear to control operations, which were "franchised" to local groups.
Photograph: Thierry Charlier/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 3.15pm BST 2.34pm BST The battle for Maaret al-Numan After three days' fighting, rebels appear to control most of Maaret al-Numan, a strategically important town in Idlib province on the Damascus-Aleppo highway.
