Example sentences of "to [pers pn] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — ( 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 . |
| 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 | In each of the areas of major concern for the NVALA , there appeared to them to be influential individuals whose determination to ‘ push back the frontiers of permissiveness ’ was seen as the greatest threat to traditional Christian morality . |
| 4 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 7 | Just as you do not wish others to inflict their desires upon you , you must leave it to them to be free to follow their own direction in life . |
| 8 | Rural listeners sometimes considered the questions and the answers given to them to be improper : |
| 9 | It also seems to me to be consistent with the approach of the court in the Torfaen case [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 10 | Bu bu bu bu but what , what was happening seemed to me to be consistent with that . |
| 11 | The suggested analogies relied on with ecclesiastical courts and military courts which apply wholly distinct areas of law do not seem to me to be helpful or valid . |
| 12 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 13 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 14 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 15 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 16 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 17 | seems to me to be good . |
| 18 | It appeared to me to be necessary that we should set out our agreed recommendations in some separate document . |
| 19 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 20 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 21 | through great swathes of the public sector does not seem to me to be half-baked . |
| 22 | Mm I 've still to have that proved to me to be honest . |
| 23 | You appear to me to be fussy and pedantic . |
| 24 | Neither picture seemed to me to be appropriate , and I could not quite understand why it was necessary for Aunt Louise to retire at all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 26 | Well the lowest figure , erm we 've already got a level of commitment , we have to have three thousand de-allocations if that was the case , that does not seem to me to be correct . |
| 27 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 28 | Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot . |
| 29 | What appears to me to be essential both for the reader and for the novelist who together constitute a couple — and a couple always comprises two accomplices — is to guide complicity along a most exacting path . |
| 30 | It has happened too often to me to be mere coincidence . |