Example sentences of "[vb -s] to i [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency .
2 His undoubted pace is being sacrificed on an altar of greater sevens savvy elsewhere in the squad which seems to me a reasonable gambit to adopt .
3 The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion .
4 " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is .
5 Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ?
6 Now the year nineteen oh nine seems to me a curious year .
7 It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died .
8 erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes .
9 The two vices , he points out , are connected , for That seems to me a fitting explanation for the resolutely ‘ Implacable Malice ’ of Iago .
10 For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) …
11 Now I 've not seen this suggested , but it seems to me a fair way of doing it .
12 Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator .
13 That seems to me a basic requirement of er , of all the sale of food .
14 Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid .
15 ( It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘ distancing ’ or ‘ alienating ’ devices : rather the opposite . )
16 ( p. 3 ) This aim , which seems to me an obvious piece of common sense , caused uproar among many teachers of English , who feared a return to the rote-learning of the 1950s .
17 It seems to me an unfortunate coincidence , therefore , that the pharmaceutical company that provided financial support for the consensus group chose to mount a postal advertising campaign within a week of the group 's report , urging surgeons to use its particular low molecular weight heparin for venous thromboprophylaxis and citing the consensus group 's recommendations as evidence for this .
18 Using this ‘ recognition ’ to explore the positivity of how domestic relations are lived seems to me an important step beyond assertions that the academic should side with the oppressed …
19 No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " .
20 One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side .
21 It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics .
22 It seems to me the only thing to do . ’
23 One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords
24 To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet .
25 It seems to me the Freudian view takes both into account .
26 ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’
27 I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity .
28 So , as an all-rounder that can cope with fingerpicking , strumming and solo work , the ultra-responsive D-18 seems to me the runaway winner ; but as a pure rhythm/accompaniment instrument , the D-32 perhaps just nicks the biscuit .
29 What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it .
30 Even the figure-drawing class , ( which seems to me the dreaded end , and the model has n't even got a beautiful figure ) has produced at least one lovely charcoal drawing .
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