Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] to [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 2 | This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies . |
| 3 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 4 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 6 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 7 | This brings to me a strange solace . |
| 8 | The two vices , he points out , are connected , for That seems to me a fitting explanation for the resolutely ‘ Implacable Malice ’ of Iago . |
| 9 | ‘ And that seems to me a very uncharacteristic thing for you to say , ’ Willoughby said firmly . |
| 10 | That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family . |
| 11 | And that seems to me a fairly fundamental shift in the regional balance of argument and need . |
| 12 | That seems to me a basic requirement of er , of all the sale of food . |
| 13 | That seems to me a complete and utter nonsense |
| 14 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 15 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
| 17 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 18 | That appeals to me a lot more . |