Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 2 | Its potential advantage to British industry seemed to me to be colossal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Class Readers seem to me to be an excellent book … |
| 5 | Even-more significant for their future growth , Merton has expanded the field of candidates open to them by being able to search globally , as a member of Transearch , a group of internationally affiliated consultancies in fifteen major business centres . |
| 6 | This kind of recognition seems to me to be as important in its own way as the lavish rewards which American companies give on complicated criteria . |
| 7 | Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective . |
| 8 | Such exclusions need not be contained in the original contract document , but you must agree to them in writing before the term expires for them to be legally effective . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 10 | ‘ On the contrary , your condition appears to me to be markedly different . ’ |
| 11 | This dictum was followed by the opinion of the Lord Advocate ( Mr. Graham Murray ) and the Dean of Faculty ( Mr. Asher ) on November 2 , 1893 , that " the fitness of the applicant seems to us to be the only question upon which , on an application for a transfer , the magistrates may exercise their discretion " ; and by the opinion of the town clerk of Glasgow ( December 18 , 1894 ) , that , if satisfied that the applicant is a suitable person , " all usual and more general considerations must be reserved till the annual licensing period . " |
| 12 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 13 | Its size and mass are similar to the Earth , but too few data exist for it to be known whether its interior composition and structure are as similar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 16 | Forcing values upon another without full discussion of what are to count as rights and duties appear to me to be anti-educational . |
| 17 | The question seemed to her to be doubly hostile , implying both that the Prince was too short and that she was too tall . |
| 18 | Her feet seem to me to be set more firmly upon the earth than theirs … . |
| 19 | The posters will be sent to companies calling on them to be more careful . |
| 20 | It is within the competence of the examiners not to mark examination work judged by them to be illegible . |
| 21 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 22 | This whole attitude to work seems to me to be missing something of deep significance . |
| 23 | This work seems to us to be truly depraving and corrupting unlike some sex films which offend solely on grounds of impropriety . |
| 24 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 25 | ‘ I would add that the availability of jury trial in the Court of Session appears to me to be a further factor favouring remit . ’ |
| 26 | The very fact that they are so unknown and cost so high in human lives seems to me to be a point against the arguments of Enzensberger and Halliday . |
| 27 | Although they could only be released following the conclusion of their court cases , the law allowed for them to be provisionally released . |
| 28 | ‘ This is an ideal situation for us , ’ says Gaynor , ‘ having both been working with other companies mainly as dancers having a home setting for us to be creative in our own right . ’ |
| 29 | Causes , like the other conditions which enter into causal circumstances , are at bottom conceived by us to be certain spatio-temporal items , individual properties . |
| 30 | Decentralization fragments the scope of radical change and raises the thresholds required for it to be achieved , a maxim which constitutional and administrative designers take seriously in many liberal democracies . |