Example sentences of "to i to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following from Sierra Leone , seemed to me to be particularly well framed . |
| 2 | Despite this , I have no qualms about admitting to men of your culture and experience that the demise of Dennis Parsons seemed to me to be jolly desirable . |
| 3 | That seems to me to be completely wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ On the contrary , your condition appears to me to be markedly different . ’ |
| 5 | One was a a a business man , the other was er , trade union official , and the other was a housewife , which seemed to me to be badly representative |
| 6 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 7 | This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock . |
| 8 | There appears to me to be little intellectual stimulus in such an approach , because it is wholly circular . |
| 9 | That that seems to me to be slightly back to front as as a justification for increasing the figures . |
| 10 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 11 | It seems to me to be both useless and presumptuous to attempt to pierce the incognito of the essential Godhead . |
| 12 | However , what does seem to me to be both dangerous and impermissible is the judicial superimposition , under the guise of statutory construction , of a principle , supposedly based on some parliamentary intention nowhere expressed , that genuine transactions carried out in conformity with unequivocal statutory provisions are to be annulled or rendered ineffective because undertaken with either the sole or the predominant motive of obtaining the fiscal benefits which those provisions confer . |
| 13 | Making a slow pass behind the surf line to try to gauge the size of the breakers , it seemed to me to be rather dangerous . |
| 14 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 15 | The directions in which the company and the business should head seem to me to be best developed by iterative processes , both within the board , including the non-executive directors , and between the board and those responsible for running the businesses at a wide range of levels . |
| 16 | She says : ‘ It was always a very important thing to me to be financially independent . ’ |
| 17 | But I can offer three pieces of rather different evidence which seem to me to be highly convincing . |
| 18 | This seems to me to be only half the story . |
| 19 | One line in the song seems to me to be very revealing : when you say you want to see her killed ‘ because people like you/make me feel so tired … so old inside . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Taylor does not seem to me to be very like Mrs Woolf or Miss Compton-Burnett or Miss Bowen , ’ I had written , for some reviewers thought her too heavily indebted to them . |
| 21 | ‘ … there is not as yet any public hospital or infirmary … in or near the Town of Bedford or in the County of Bedford for the reception and relief of sick and lame Objects within the same Town and County such as those in Northampton and Leicester Counties and which appear to me to be very much wanted … and are usually created by public subscriptions … . ’ |
| 22 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 23 | And the organization of the picture seems to me to be very much on verticals and horizontals . |
| 24 | Its ancestor , Legacy , seemed to me to be very slow and cumbersome , whereas this incarnation lacks nothing in the speed department . |
| 25 | Certainly the minimum of one-and-a-half days per month envisaged by the Home Office as being all that will be required , it seems to me to be very wide of the mark . |
| 26 | One event that seems to me to be very important is Vatican Two . |
| 27 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 28 | The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation . |
| 29 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 30 | The idea of doing this through the planning department , or through a paper on strategy presented to the board , seems to me to be quite inadequate . |