The phrase "appears to be capable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing an observation or assessment of someone's abilities or potential in a particular context.
Example: "The candidate appears to be capable of handling the responsibilities of the position based on their previous experience."
Alternatives: "seems to be able" or "looks to be competent".
But the supervillain appears to be capable of size-shifting so no one's going to be pushing him around any time soon.
But, according to an adviser on biomechanics to UK Athletics, this is not simply beachwear: the FitFlop appears to be capable of performing miracles.
The system appears to be capable of making the extraordinarily fine discriminations of time and intensity that are necessary for sound localization.
The other cases on tonight's programme include that of a man who appears to be capable of drawing masterpieces when he is asleep, and a woman who can't stop making meals and scoffing them while she is kipping.
Furthermore, the test appears to be capable of predicting the individual likelihood to respond to a current antidepressant treatment.
A subset of cells found in the amniotic fluid and placenta appears to be capable of maintaining prolonged undifferentiated proliferation.
Allowing something for a chief executive's salary, equity holders contend that the company appears to be capable of $40 million a year in operating income (net before depreciation, interest and taxes).
Glu181 is suggested to be the counterion in the Meta III state of the mutant and appears to be capable of stabilizing a protonated Schiff base in Meta III, but not of constraining the receptor in an inactive conformation.
In short, neither the fashion nor the equity markets appear to be capable of solving Bangladesh's problems.
He said it had been under discussion by senior advisers after his aides realized, to their surprise, how much money Mr. Dean appeared to be capable of raising.
Of course, these cyborg organisms will need to eat and reproduce - and they appear to be capable of exponential self-replication.
