The phrase "appears to split the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation or phenomenon that seems to divide or separate something into parts.
Example: "The new policy appears to split the community into two opposing factions."
Alternatives: "seems to divide the" or "appears to separate the".
The director had been the bookies' favourite coming in to the festival and yet Winter Sleep appeared to split the critics when it screened early in the festival.
However, an additional class did not provide additional information, and appeared to split the high-decreasing trajectory into two ordered classes.
According to Slate, he also appears to split his time between the Cotton State and the Bay Area, where he works and also owns a home.
Exceptionally, the first of these primary Delta bands appears to split to give rise to both the maxillopedal and the first leg-bearing segment.
PAGE A15 Fight Over Earmarks in Bill A16 A SPLIT ON CAMPAIGN DONATIONS The Supreme Court appeared to split along ideological lines in an argument over whether a state court judge should have disqualified himself from an appeal of a $50 million jury verdict against an energy company whose chief executive had spent $3 million to elect him.
After rotation, the items appeared to split into positively and negatively phrased (inversely scored) components.
The various parties appeared to split into two camps.
But voters have tired of the relentless austerity that Portugal has had to endure under the terms of its €78 billion ($101 billion) bail-out programme, and the repercussions appear to have split the two-party coalition government.
Volcanic eruptions have in recent months significantly changed the coastline and appear to have split the island into segments.
The latest to join the fray – Grassroots Out – appears to be trying to split the difference.
