Example sentences of "[adv] seem [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 2 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 3 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 4 | Well certainly I mean this this whole initiative is something that I s just seemed to me when Philip got in touch in the first place , that that something that we ought to er be involved with . |
| 5 | I mean it just seems to me an area which I think I would like to have a bit more information on . |
| 6 | It just seems to me that the film is running backwards . |
| 7 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 8 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 9 | Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways . |
| 10 | We , we need n't do it , it just seems to me that it would be |
| 11 | It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum . |
| 12 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 13 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 14 | What it does not seem to me to offer , and what seems crucial for the intensely generic regime which television operates , is the beginning of a theory of genre specific to television which addresses not only the systems , but the forms of subjectivity which these systems imply . |
| 15 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |
| 16 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 17 | ‘ Mrs Taylor does not seem to me to be very like Mrs Woolf or Miss Compton-Burnett or Miss Bowen , ’ I had written , for some reviewers thought her too heavily indebted to them . |
| 18 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 19 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the sound of the Steinway piano that they use does not seem to me inappropriate , and the Berlin recording is well focused with natural resonance and a good dynamic range including a real pianissimo . |
| 21 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Since the cases before the court are concerned with the taking up of fishing activities by nationals of a member state and the pursuit of those activities in another member state using a vessel registered in that state , article 59 of the E.E.C Treaty on freedom to provide services , which was raised by the Spanish Government , does not seem to me to be applicable . |
| 23 | Fourthly , the appellants were never auditors of B. & C. That does not seem to me in any sense to be conclusive since the inquiry is into the affairs of Atlantic of which the appellants were auditors and as to representations made about it before acquisition . |
| 24 | It does not seem to me that this can involve any impeachment , or questioning of the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament , accordingly I do not see how such a use of Hansard can possibly be thought to infringe article 9 of the Bill of Rights and I agree with my noble and learned friend 's more detailed consideration of that matter . |
| 25 | The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds . |
| 26 | The suggested analogies relied on with ecclesiastical courts and military courts which apply wholly distinct areas of law do not seem to me to be helpful or valid . |
| 27 | This did not seem to me a reason for appointing a chairman ; it might be a reason for appointing some sort of official ; though in fact it would not be a sound reason for appointing anyone . |
| 28 | The question of the origin of the designer or designers is much canvassed but does not seem to me , in the present state of our knowledge , susceptible of even provisional or doubtful answers . |
| 29 | The need did not seem to me , in most cases , to be neurotic in the sense of being unhealthy . |
| 30 | In a case involving a brutal sexual assault by a guardsman , Slynn J. stated : ‘ It does not seem to me that the appellant is a criminal in the sense in which that word is used frequently in these courts . |