Example sentences of "[vb -s] to me [prep] be the " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 ?
3 The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of
4 This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks .
5 He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them .
6 And this seems to me to be the clue .
7 We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use .
8 Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism .
9 The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense .
10 That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved .
11 This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions .
12 He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence .
13 I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline .
14 But that is neither the history nor the practice of our professional system , not just er for accountants but for the legal system as well and I think it has stood the test of time , er he will know that there has been er there is a procedure for the joint disciplinaries scheme er which enables the er institute to investigate whether there has been compliance by member firms with the standards promulgated er with er er by the er er auditing practices board and that seems to me to be the er right way forward .
15 Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried .
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