Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 2 | There certainly appears to me to be no such necessary exclusion of usage as suggested by reason of there being a rule . |
| 3 | I do n't know why because that seems to me to be a first rate way of travelling , you know ! |
| 4 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 5 | That seems to me to be a major step forward and a number of delegates accepted that . |
| 6 | It 's flexibility , as well as actual provision of services , that seems to me to be a major problem . |
| 7 | This seems to me to be a real cause for celebration . |
| 8 | At any rate , anything that makes Your Majesty 's subjects more conscious of their unity and of their duty to each other seems to me to be a real gain . |
| 9 | Making an international match more of an occasion for spectators in the above ways seems to me to be a legitimate means to this end , and should not be confused with more negative developments in the game . |
| 10 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 11 | Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question . |
| 12 | The analogy of the safety net seems to me to be a good one , not least because it is an image commonly employed in everyday life . |
| 13 | That seems to me to be a good argument for saying that in the ordinary way the justices ought not to make an order for no contact between the parent and the child , but I do not think it is a satisfactory argument in the interpretation of section 34(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 14 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 15 | While the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 is undoubtedly superior to the English legislation in regard to the use of extensions of the leave of absence provisions , this seems to me to be a less than satisfactory way of addressing the problem for a number of reasons , both practical and philosophical . |
| 16 | I want to begin with a question which Neale does not explicitly address , but which seems to me to be a particular blind-spot which has determined the shape of television critical theory : the question of value . |
| 17 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 18 | The final conclusion I come to therefore is that , though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi , they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon . |
| 19 | Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth ( 1910 ) 11 C.L.R. 258 seems to me to be a clear case of extortion colore officii . |
| 20 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 21 | ‘ I would add that the availability of jury trial in the Court of Session appears to me to be a further factor favouring remit . ’ |
| 22 | Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence , moving from house to compound , compound to house . |
| 23 | It seemed to me to be a crazy world . |
| 24 | Forty percent additional delegates brought into the decision making structure seems to me to be a fine tribute to the establishment of the sectional structure . |
| 25 | I can now turn to what appears to me to be the crucial question in this case : was the 1s. 6d. an ‘ ordinary retail selling price ’ within the meaning of section 8 ? |
| 26 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 27 | This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions . |
| 28 | Erm now that sounds to me to be the best way of doing . |
| 29 | erm He does seem to me to be the best . |
| 30 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |