Example sentences of "to i [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm now that sounds to me to be the best way of doing . |
| 5 | erm He does seem to me to be the best . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rich and protean , his word-seam seemed to me to be the very fount of knowledge itself , a mulchy conceptual bed which might be sown merely by the fact of being listened to , thus engendering all ideas for all time . |
| 11 | That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them . |