Example sentences of "it [verb] to i [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
2 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
3 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
4 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
5 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
6 | At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse . |
7 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
8 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
9 | So it seems to me that parental investment erm theory is , is much better because not only is it universally applicable , it also explains why the sexes a are , are the way they are in ultimate evolutionary terms and that talk about hormones and sex chromosomes never can do . |
10 | But if I can put my thinking erm on the floor first , it seems to me that vacant Normal vacancies as Mr has described them , are a function of people moving from one house to another . |
11 | Properly used , it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject . |
12 | It seems to me that innovative courses could with advantage be handled in virtually the same way . |
13 | it seems to me that British manufacturers are missing out on a market that would be welcome by bigger women |
14 | We 've actually got to address the issue of the waste of the resources of the planet and it seems to me that this report addresses that fairly substantially . |