The phrase "appeared to exclude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that seems to leave out or not include certain elements or individuals.
Example: "The new policy appeared to exclude several key stakeholders from the decision-making process."
Alternatives: "seemed to omit" or "looked like it left out".
In his letter today, Mr. Lieberman complained that Mr. Gonzales's survey appeared to exclude many current and former administration officials, including President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Interestingly, when mechanical stress was combined with CisPt and/or PBMCs, cell death appeared to exclude the involvement of PARP-1 apoptotic cleavage and 1(c)).
This result appeared to exclude an effect of pet ownership on respiratory symptoms and was consistent with some previous findings [ 36].
While it was in force, the maritime quarantine used by American Samoa from November 23 , 1918 appeared to exclude pandemic influenza (2 ).
The above measurements of left ventricular ΔAPD90 appeared to exclude an involvement of arrhythmogenic substrate in effects of KN-93 under conditions of metabolic acidification.
These results appeared to exclude the possibility that in microinjected mice dispersion of PrPres seeds occurred only at the time of initial injection, which was one possibility proposed in the introduction to this paper.
It said the measure "appears to exclude" these small-scale generators from the larger program.
While state ethics rules do allow some gifts accepted in connection with official duties, they appear to exclude most tickets to sporting events.
The bills exclude American citizens, and the Senate bill appears to exclude lawful residents of this country, but government lawyers fear that is not clear enough.
The 1995 contract with Novell appears to exclude them, whereas the 1996 amendment says SCO does have the trademark and copyrights to Unix, though it does not mention patents.
The senators also complain that restrictions on who may apply for the money, recently outlined by the State Department, appear to exclude the organizations that are creating the most popular tools for getting around censorship.
