Example sentences of "appear to [pers pn] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It is to this domain that we conventionally ascribe our image of self and of importance , identifying strongly with our controlled ability to articulate what appears to us to be the content of our own will . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , the typical Greek tended to be backward-looking , since the future appeared to him to be the domain of total uncertainty , his only guide to it being delusive expectation . |