Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pers pn] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us say that it occurs to you that a story in which a husband kills his wife without any apparent motive would be " a marvellous idea " . |
| 2 | ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down . |
| 3 | It seems to me that a correct understanding of human evolution is very relevant to projects of this kind , but that the effect of that understanding is largely discouraging to them . |
| 4 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 5 | Moreover , it seems to me that a local authority is to be commended for a decision such as this , made in the light of the report of an independent person of the qualification and experience of a guardian ad litem . |
| 6 | In the first , Malone v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ( No 2 ) [ 1979 ] 2 All ER 620 , which concerned the use to which recordings of telephone conversations made with the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Office , Megarry V-C said " it seems to me that a person who utters confidential information must accept the risk of any unknown overhearing that is inherent in the circumstances of the communication " . |
| 7 | It seems to me that an awful lot of the voluntary sector does come from very much the individualist side of the equation which you were laying out in front of us Chris . |
| 8 | It seems to us that a market economy depends upon the confidence investors have in the perceived fairness of the market process . |
| 9 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | When the Problem Solver reports to him that a problem has been resolved the Computer Group Manager should give his agreement to the closure of the problem report . |
| 11 | The fact that this is happening within and as a result of the capitalist global system suggests to me that a qualitatively new relationship between culture and ideology is being forged . |