Example sentences of "[vb -s] to i that the " in BNC.
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1 | His pleasure comes from a different source : ‘ I am obviously very conscious of what my forebears achieved and therefore it matters to me that the business has survived , remained independent and has grown . ’ |
2 | It occurs to me that the St-Germain-des Pres scene was the first bohemia to have become an immediate media success . |
3 | It occurs to me that the firm 's international links can not be over-emphasised . |
4 | It sounds to me that the sort of the theology that you 're describing , Colin , and you described just now , John , is very much a theology in which religion is , as it were , getting out of the churches and into the homes and daily activities and concerns of ordinary people . |
5 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
6 | It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible . |
7 | It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible . |
8 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
9 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
10 | At the very least it appears to me that the manner in which I have construed the relevant provisions in their application to the facts in this appeal is a possible construction and that any ambiguity there should be resolved in favour of the taxpayer . |
11 | of the reasoning in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 with the ruling in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 it appears to me that the suggested basis of reconciliation , which is essentially speculative , is unsound . |
12 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |
13 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
14 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
15 | Indeed , it sometimes seems to me that the whole of this big , cold city is full of cripples , lunatics and the walking wounded . |
16 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
17 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
18 | It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers . |
19 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
20 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
21 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |
22 | It seems to me that the only possible way of finding out what it is like is to live it . |
23 | Now it seems to me that the Churches have a great deal to gain from this method of selling their message . |
24 | It often seems to me that the lay of the land itself reveals the angle from which a mark is meant to be approached . |
25 | We have the possibilities of a postmodern , post-nationalist way of relating , but it seems to me that the prerequisite of that in these islands is the end of the United Kingdom as we have known it . |
26 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
27 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
28 | It seems to me that the Cabinet has an obsessively self-protective herd instinct which could be its undoing . |
29 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
30 | Indeed , as I have already indicated , it seems to me that the very claim of pedagogy to professional status is based on the same supposition . |