Example sentences of "to [pron] that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 2 | I explain to them that the local garage which supplied us with petrol has closed and we therefore no longer have an account . |
| 3 | It seemed incongruous to them that the sweet teenager they knew was not only surviving life in the toughest of all trades . |
| 4 | ‘ It did not occur to them that the wrong drug had been introduced not by accident but deliberately . |
| 5 | of the reasoning in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 with the ruling in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 it appears to me that the suggested basis of reconciliation , which is essentially speculative , is unsound . |
| 6 | It seems to me that the new settlement if my analysis is correct can only be in one of those two areas , which does n't seem to me to be a very sensible way of proceeding . |
| 7 | It seems to me that the New Testament says very clearly that many people came to Jesus asking for a sign and he pointed to himself . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that the matrimonial question could have been dealt with more sympathetically and with greater understanding , as perhaps Winston Churchill could have handled it . |
| 9 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 10 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |
| 11 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 12 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 14 | It appeared to me that the only thing he had never mastered was paper hanging . |
| 15 | It seems to me that the only waste is not to recycle it . |
| 16 | It is inexplicable to me that the Labour party would wish to stop this continuing and successful experiment . |
| 17 | Therefore it seems to me that the communist party really has to disappear , it 's a good thing that it 's own general secretary has disbanded it , I anticipate that it will break up into a number of political parties , perhaps one kind of social democratic party on the left and another , if you like a kind of Russian unionist party , on the right , erm , but as the communist party it 's simply incompatible with the emergence of democracy in the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 19 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 20 | Indeed , as I have already indicated , it seems to me that the very claim of pedagogy to professional status is based on the same supposition . |
| 21 | However , it seems to me that the stratigraphical record is full of examples of processes that are far from " normal " in the usual sense of the word . |
| 22 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |
| 23 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |
| 24 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 25 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 26 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 27 | Apart from the fact that the writing is rather sloppy in a pompous sort of way , it seems to me that the whole exercise was not worthwhile . |
| 28 | An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be . |
| 29 | In fact given the , what 's happened politically in what was Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Lands and Slovakia , erm and the financial pressures in Slovakia it 's not certain to me that the whole arrangement will go forward . |
| 30 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |