Example sentences of "seem [prep] [pron] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 2 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 3 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 4 | Neither picture seemed to me to be appropriate , and I could not quite understand why it was necessary for Aunt Louise to retire at all . |
| 5 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 6 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 7 | Its potential advantage to British industry seemed to me to be colossal . |
| 8 | they seemed to me to be heavy with symbolism but I could n't see anything . |
| 9 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 10 | Lubor still seemed to her to be unsure . |
| 11 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 12 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 13 | They concede that municipal monopoly of schooling has let down generations but they come back with ideas that seem to me to be sensible and subtle but also politically popular . |
| 14 | From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear : |
| 15 | To reduce the number of words : ( a ) Select the words which seem to you to be important for retaining the important messages of the document key words , points of understanding or argument , main points in support . |
| 16 | Answering the question as to the state in which this love can best be practised , Rolle points to an inner quietness which seems for him to be achievable only in literal solitude and constrained stability : " er Goddes trone , dwelles still in a stede , and er noght abowte rennand " [ trone : throne ; a stede : one place ] ( 10.116.258 – 9 ) . |
| 17 | HIS great courage and imperturbable COOLNESS in the face of what must at times have seemed to him to be insuperable odds WAS , I must confess — although I do not really like him — quite UNBELIEVABLE . |
| 18 | Bu bu bu bu but what , what was happening seemed to me to be consistent with that . |
| 19 | As a feminist I wanted these women to stop having what seemed to me to be silly attitudes … |
| 20 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 21 | The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts — education/full-time work/retirement — seems to me to be absurd . |
| 22 | seems to me to be good . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 24 | It also seems to me to be consistent with the approach of the court in the Torfaen case [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 25 | There are some yachts which come close to this spec : the FF boats of Holland ( only 30 and 35ft ) ; the X119 , but I do n't think this is suitable for two and its bulb keel with forward protrusion seems to me to be dangerous in our net-infested waters ; the Dehler db36 is interesting , though ugly and over-designed . |
| 26 | However , it seems to me to be incorrect to conclude as a result that article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 27 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 28 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 29 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 30 | It seems to me to be important enough to be worth tabling if that can be arranged . |