Example sentences of "[vb base] to [pers pn] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 2 | VISCOUNT CAVE L.C. : No doubt there is an absolute unconditional obligation binding the police authorities to take all steps which appear to them to be necessary for keeping the peace , for preventing crime , or for protecting property from criminal injury ; and the public , who pay for this protection through the rates and taxes , can not lawfully be called upon to make a further payment for that which is their right … |
| 3 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 4 | ‘ High or low will seldom suit the taste of a painter who will always move over the surface of his near grounds till the component parts of his subject appear to him to be arranged in the best possible order . ’ |
| 5 | If the Secretary of State is satisfied … that any local education authority … have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably … he may … give such directions … as appear to him to be expedient . |
| 6 | In Albert v. Lavin the question posed for the House of Lords was ‘ whether a constable who reasonably believes that a breach of the peace is about to take place is entitled to detain any person without arrest to prevent that breach of the peace in circumstances which appear to him to be proper . ’ |
| 7 | ’ unless such allegations go to a matter in issue ( including the credibility of the witness ) which is material to his lay client 's case and which appear to him to be supported by reasonable grounds . ’ |
| 8 | The legislation requires the secretary of state to prepare a schedule of monuments which appear to him to be ‘ of national importance ’ . |
| 9 | You appear to me to be fussy and pedantic . |
| 10 | ‘ … there is not as yet any public hospital or infirmary … in or near the Town of Bedford or in the County of Bedford for the reception and relief of sick and lame Objects within the same Town and County such as those in Northampton and Leicester Counties and which appear to me to be very much wanted … and are usually created by public subscriptions … . ’ |
| 11 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 12 | Forcing values upon another without full discussion of what are to count as rights and duties appear to me to be anti-educational . |
| 13 | Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light . |
| 14 | More particularly the jury 's verdict in the Ponting trial may be seen then as the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong . |
| 15 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 16 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 17 | The key elements involved here seem to me to be : |
| 18 | Her feet seem to me to be set more firmly upon the earth than theirs … . |
| 19 | There seem to me to be two problems with this line of argument ( which is essentially that speech is ‘ role-appropriate ’ and that gender is a major determinant of role ) . |
| 20 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 21 | Class Readers seem to me to be an excellent book … |
| 22 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 23 | The directions in which the company and the business should head seem to me to be best developed by iterative processes , both within the board , including the non-executive directors , and between the board and those responsible for running the businesses at a wide range of levels . |
| 24 | ‘ I will make note of these expressions , Mr Pomfret , which seem to me to be a part of that insolence which accompanies intolerance to veil incompetence . ’ |
| 25 | And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking . |
| 26 | But I can offer three pieces of rather different evidence which seem to me to be highly convincing . |
| 27 | From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear : |
| 28 | There seem to me to be three possible remedies : ( 1 ) an action for malicious falsehood ; ( 2 ) a prosecution , with leave of the judge for criminal libel ; and ( 3 ) an action for libel by an individual within the local authority . |
| 29 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 30 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |