Example sentences of "to [pron] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye witnesses on the ground had seen the aircraft on what appeared to them to be a perfectly normal approach when a large portion of structure separated in flight . |
| 2 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 3 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 4 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 5 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 6 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 7 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 8 | There certainly appears to me to be no such necessary exclusion of usage as suggested by reason of there being a rule . |
| 9 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 10 | That seemed to me to be a perfectly proper use of what the company had to offer . |
| 11 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 12 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 13 | 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 ‘ . |
| 14 | I want to begin with a question which Neale does not explicitly address , but which seems to me to be a particular blind-spot which has determined the shape of television critical theory : the question of value . |
| 15 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 16 | It seemed to me to be a crazy world . |
| 17 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 18 | Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence , moving from house to compound , compound to house . |
| 19 | Similarly , the young lady/old woman figure can not appear to me to be a picture of a young lady unless I possess the concept of age , and all the other concepts involved in that of age . |
| 20 | Making an international match more of an occasion for spectators in the above ways seems to me to be a legitimate means to this end , and should not be confused with more negative developments in the game . |
| 21 | The analogy of the safety net seems to me to be a good one , not least because it is an image commonly employed in everyday life . |
| 22 | Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This seems to me to be a real cause for celebration . |
| 25 | Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth ( 1910 ) 11 C.L.R. 258 seems to me to be a clear case of extortion colore officii . |
| 26 | Any judge would be most reluctant to punish the doctor for such a contempt , which seems to me to be a very strong indication that such an order should not be made . |
| 27 | That seems to me to be a good argument for saying that in the ordinary way the justices ought not to make an order for no contact between the parent and the child , but I do not think it is a satisfactory argument in the interpretation of section 34(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 28 | The very fact that they are so unknown and cost so high in human lives seems to me to be a point against the arguments of Enzensberger and Halliday . |
| 29 | I am completely undomesticated and disorganised — it does n't come naturally to me to be a houseperson . |
| 30 | The final conclusion I come to therefore is that , though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi , they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon . |