Example sentences of "[vb -s] to i to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea . |
| 2 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 3 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 4 | On 3 October 1838 , Charles Darwin wrote in his N notebook that ‘ to study Metaphysics , as they have always been studied appears to me to be like puzzling at astronomy without mechanics … |
| 5 | Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question . |
| 6 | There appears to me to be little intellectual stimulus in such an approach , because it is wholly circular . |
| 7 | Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot . |
| 8 | Further , for the reasons which I have given , the action which the applicant has begun in the Bow County Court appears to me to be , in Lord Lowry 's words , ‘ ill suited to dispose of the question at issue . ’ |
| 9 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think the first thing is to improve the appearance , because the area itself appears to me to be to be thriving . |
| 12 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 13 | I can now turn to what appears to me to be the crucial question in this case : was the 1s. 6d. an ‘ ordinary retail selling price ’ within the meaning of section 8 ? |
| 14 | This is a consideration averred in the declaration , and it appears to me to be expressed in the letter , construed with the surrounding circumstances . |
| 15 | ‘ On the contrary , your condition appears to me to be markedly different . ’ |
| 16 | There certainly appears to me to be no such necessary exclusion of usage as suggested by reason of there being a rule . |
| 17 | ‘ I would add that the availability of jury trial in the Court of Session appears to me to be a further factor favouring remit . ’ |
| 18 | Just in , just in passing on this committee I 'm assured will be concerned of the apparent difficulties between er the Highways er and the organization of Suffolk and that in Norfolk , erm and we shall be I think er wishing to look at that er to see what 's going astray and something appears to me to be not quite right in the relationship and er , erm I think it 's important that er adjoining Highway Authorities do in fact get on |
| 19 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 20 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 23 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 24 | This seems to me to be an enormous change . |
| 25 | The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts — education/full-time work/retirement — seems to me to be absurd . |
| 26 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 27 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 28 | Killing things for fun seems to me to be so immoral as to warrant no discussion at all . |
| 29 | A key phrase here seems to me to be ‘ gentle figure who handles his firing weapon ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems to me to be inconsistent with the spirit of liberalisation to have a mandatory code that necessitates a cumbersome and bureaucratic certification process . ’ |