Example sentences of "[verb] to many to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of accepting what may appear to many to be a cynical bribe , Radnorshire must deliver a clear message that it will not sell its beautiful countryside or the quality of life of its residents for cash . |
| 2 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |
| 3 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 4 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 5 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 6 | The idea of a duty solicitor scheme to operate in a busy metropolitan magistrates ' court may seem to many to be a natural consequence of all the other paraphernalia of a socially conscious profession . |