Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 32 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 33 | What effect has this had on you as a person now ? |
| 34 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 35 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 36 | A. This sounds to me like a classic case of the ‘ straw that broke the camel 's back ’ syndrome . |
| 37 | Although Tory Euro-rebels support the Government in opposing the social chapter , they are prepared to vote for it in the hope of wrecking the whole treaty . |
| 38 | This seems to me to be an enormous change . |
| 39 | This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock . |
| 40 | This seems to me to be a more accurate picture of the nature of religious belief than one which suggests that those who really believe , must confess to an unbridgeable gulf between themselves and ‘ unbelief ‘ . |
| 41 | This seems to me to be at the root of the false notion of ‘ independence ’ being pursued by so many local élites throughout Europe and beyond . |
| 42 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 43 | This seems to me to be only half the story . |
| 44 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 45 | This seems to me to be a real cause for celebration . |
| 46 | This seems to me to be more consistent with the need for justice to be seen to be done — and this both by the alleged contemnor and the more general public . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | This seems to me to be an eminently sensible arrangement , and I think this sort of structure could also work here . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | This seems to me to be a highly , high responsible budget bringing us closer and closer to a position where we will eventually reach . |
| 51 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 52 | This seems to me like trying to bake a cake with half the ingredients missing — and then not warning the consumer why it might taste funny . |
| 53 | The Commons 's select committee on transport recommended ‘ in view of the present lack of empirical data on the performance of road pavements capable of carrying more than 20 million standard axles this appears to us to be an extremely short-sighted cutback by the Department . ’ |
| 54 | 1991 has seen many changes both external and internal ; some placed upon us by legislative bodies and the fluctuating state of the economy , others initiated from within in order to improve the working environment for all employees . |
| 55 | ‘ This worked against us in many areas of the country and we had a lot of losses . |
| 56 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 57 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 58 | The girl turned her head and half smiled at him behind her glasses . |
| 59 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 60 | It would be very wrong to think of it as an alternative ’ . |