Example sentences of "seem to [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 3 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 4 | Sometimes it seemed to her that old age reduced anxiety . |
| 5 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 6 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 7 | It seemed to us that two nettles had to be grasped : the first was to decide whether divorce law should attempt to remedy the ‘ injustice ’ meted out to ‘ innocent ’ spouses who are divorced against their will . |
| 8 | And it seems to me that that oneness , that that unity is pneumatic in character . |
| 9 | It seems to me that that attention to the moment is significant of the great work that you do for this particular charity . |
| 10 | However , when no real progess is made , the time comes for reassessment , and it seems to me that that time is now . |
| 11 | It seems to me that this case does not even touch that important question . ’ |
| 12 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 13 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |
| 14 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 15 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
| 16 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 17 | ‘ It seems to me that this practice will only pay its way because of what they now call ‘ companion animals ’ . |
| 18 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 19 | So it seems to me that those sociologists , and there 've been a lot of them , who have taken the view that Freud like some other social thinkers , like any of their kind , for example , was a , was simply a Hobbesian thinker , had n't really read their Freud , or at least they had n't read their Freud after about World War One . |
| 20 | Given that privacy is plausibly one of the necessary conditions for being an explication of consciousness ( see below ) , it seems to me that any establishment of an interesting sense of machine privacy must be relevant . |
| 21 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 22 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 23 | ‘ Seems to me that half Deptford knew they were coming . ’ |
| 24 | It seems to me that another problem , as far as the teacher is concerned , is the inconsistency in the dyslexic child 's performance . |
| 25 | It seems to me that few people have anything pleasant to say about capers , but I love them . |
| 26 | What 's more , after years of growing awareness about the state of the Earth , it seems to me that most governments are still blind to the readiness of their people to accept radical changes in the interests of their children and grandchildren . |
| 27 | It seems to us that these acts were sufficient to support a finding of possession and indeed on the material before us we would be disposed to reach the same conclusion … |
| 28 | It seems to us that this approach would not work where the ideas are essentially novel or controversial . |
| 29 | ‘ Ordinarily , it would seem to me that this object is most likely to be achieved by employing a single well-qualified firm , which would itself deploy staff so as to achieve the optimum blend of continuity and freshness . |