The phrase "appear to have constituted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that seems to have formed or made up a particular situation or entity, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The findings of the study appear to have constituted a significant breakthrough in our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "seem to have formed" or "seem to have made up".
Based on that report, Hancock Prospecting's $2.2m donation would appear to have constituted more than a third of the IPA's income that year.
"Given Facebook's conclusion that these accounts were inauthentic, they appear to have constituted an attempt by an external actor — possibly, though not certainly, in the Russian-speaking world — to infiltrate left-wing American communities," the lab wrote in a blog post today.
(Some Russellians, e.g., Tye 1995, 2000, 2005, hold that only the properties things appear to have constitute the content of perception).
The mechanisms used by Cambridge Analytica and the "malicious actors" cited by Facebook appear to have been legal and do not constitute a data hack, but rather a deliberate exploitation of information through tools or loopholes Facebook itself provided in the past.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement saying he "strongly condemns" the attack, and noting that the "rockets appear to have been launched indiscriminately into civilian areas, which would constitute a violation of international humanitarian law".
Officials, Professor Vagts said, appear to have taken care not to charge that membership in Al Qaeda alone constitutes a crime.
The judges said they were concerned police had no clear definition of what constituted "domestic extremism" and, in Catt's case, did not appear to have respected their fluid definition to recognise he was a peaceful protester.
The factor 'platinum resistance', which nowadays constitutes an almost restrictive factor against secondary cytoreduction, does not appear to have any role in the quaternary setting.
In addition, locusts appear to have a very big genome (estimated 2 3 times larger than the human genome [8]), which constitutes a major hurdle to completely sequence it.
Now that we appear to have the whole of Sebald's creative output before us, it is natural to inquire more closely into what constitutes his particular style and to attempt, however briefly, a characterisation of it.
