Example sentences of "to [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 3 | It is partly up to them to break free of their role as craftsmen and craftswomen working to order and to surprise us , as Ralph Beyer consistently does , with lapidary writing that operates as a literary form with a sculptural presence . |
| 4 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |
| 5 | At sixteen or seventeen many adolescents in the sample were considered old enough to make up their own minds about issues such as smoking , exercise , and diet ; it was often left entirely up to them to contact doctors , dentists , and sometimes schools for undiscovered GCSE results . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 8 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 9 | When the disciples first heard from the women that Jesus had risen , they were incredulous : ‘ The story appeared to them to be nonsense , and they would not believe them . ’ |
| 10 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 12 | Supermarket chains Asda , Gateway , Safeway , Sainsbury and Tesco complained earlier this year that banks had doubled the charges to them to between 8p and 10p per transaction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Rural listeners sometimes considered the questions and the answers given to them to be improper : |
| 15 | ‘ There 's so much , as you say , and everyone else seems to them to be doing well enough to enjoy it all . |
| 16 | As far as he was concerned , it was the Russians ' mistake and up to them to sort it out . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Teachers had to learn to accept children 's idiosyncratic ideas , even those which appeared to them to be wholly misconceived or ridiculous . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I consider that as far as they were concerned Mr. Winterbone appeared to them to be perfectly clear and lucid and that , as was said , he seemed to know what he was doing . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | I think it 's sort of accepted that men need their leisure time you know , it 's vital to them to either get out to the pub or get their leisure time and it 's women that 's considered they do n't need it , they 're you know , I do n't think it 's se se se , considered as important . |
| 25 | More particularly the jury 's verdict in the Ponting trial may be seen then as the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong . |
| 26 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 27 | But has n't it occurred to you that if they have access to knowledge and culture from a previous machine age , yet still continue with their own customs , then maybe they have reasons which seem at least to them to be perfectly good and sufficient ? ’ |
| 28 | The men on board looked up towards their companions on the quayside , muttering to them to be quicker . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now er i i if you 're buying gilts individually , you 've got to know what you 're doing unless you want to hang on to them to the end of the terms , cos gilts are government securities , and they have the different rate , rates of return , different maturity dates . |