Example sentences of "seem [prep] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 4 | The key elements involved here seem to me to be : |
| 5 | Her feet seem to me to be set more firmly upon the earth than theirs … . |
| 6 | There seem to me to be two problems with this line of argument ( which is essentially that speech is ‘ role-appropriate ’ and that gender is a major determinant of role ) . |
| 7 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 8 | Class Readers seem to me to be an excellent book … |
| 9 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I will make note of these expressions , Mr Pomfret , which seem to me to be a part of that insolence which accompanies intolerance to veil incompetence . ’ |
| 12 | And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking . |
| 13 | But I can offer three pieces of rather different evidence which seem to me to be highly convincing . |
| 14 | From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear : |
| 15 | There seem to me to be three possible remedies : ( 1 ) an action for malicious falsehood ; ( 2 ) a prosecution , with leave of the judge for criminal libel ; and ( 3 ) an action for libel by an individual within the local authority . |
| 16 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Now , now , ’ he said , ‘ Let's be a kind , dear girl , your lover wants to get the feel of you , let him , if you 're as sweet as you seem to me to be . ’ |
| 19 | If we examine the record of adult education in relation to the women 's movement there seem to me to be four kinds of responses . |
| 20 | Thick make-up does little to dim the pink , fiery stars that seem to me to be as large as suns . |
| 21 | The final conclusion I come to therefore is that , though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi , they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon . |
| 22 | GLIDEWELL L.J. , having reviewed the authorities , concluding with Pao On v. Lau Yiu , continued : It is true that Pao On v. Lau Yiu is a case of a tripartite relationship , that is , a promise by A to perform a pre-existing contractual obligation owed to B , in retum for a promise of payment by C. But Lord Scarman 's words seem to me to be of general application , equally applicable to a promise made by one of the original two parties to a contract . |
| 23 | You seem to me to be struggling . |
| 24 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 25 | There are other matters however , which seem to me to be much more significant in statistical terms and in relation to the total level of provision |
| 26 | ‘ They seem to me to be drifting that way . |
| 27 | More and more you seem to me to be going together to the village . ’ |
| 28 | They concede that municipal monopoly of schooling has let down generations but they come back with ideas that seem to me to be sensible and subtle but also politically popular . |
| 29 | And as far as this freedom for schools , I am rather more interested in freedom for parents , and things like open enrolments seem to me to be more akin to how far the au pair can drive the Volvo in twenty minutes than any real choice for parents . |
| 30 | About mysticism he says , ‘ While its theories seem to me to be mistaken , I yet believe that by sufficient restraint , there is an element of wisdom to be learned from the mystical way of feeling , which does not seem to be attainable in any other manner . |