Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 2 | He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence . |
| 3 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 4 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Indeed , the typical Greek tended to be backward-looking , since the future appeared to him to be the domain of total uncertainty , his only guide to it being delusive expectation . |
| 7 | It is to this domain that we conventionally ascribe our image of self and of importance , identifying strongly with our controlled ability to articulate what appears to us to be the content of our own will . |