Example sentences of "[vb -s] to me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happens to me every day when people come upto me and ask me whether I 'm Clint Eastwood or not . |
| 2 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 3 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know about reincarnation , ’ said Lydia , ‘ except it sounds to me a bit of a dirty trick . |
| 5 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 6 | Although the case of a limitation upon , or condition precedent to a right to serve a notice to quit , does not appear to have been the subject of judicial decision , his principle that , if a covenant affects a landlord qua landlord , it must necessarily run with the reversion , appears to me a sound criterion … |
| 7 | It seems to me no more — and no less — obscene than the new Ministry of War headquarters just built on our satellite . |
| 8 | It is the work of a novelist and Journalist , not an academic , and notwithstanding the sometimes excessive brightness of the prose and the shortwindedness of the articles it seems to me a brilliant late embodiment of the Anglo-American tradition of literary and social criticism . |
| 9 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 10 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 11 | Professor Lear 's assertion that ‘ it is through love that humans , and the rest of living nature , acquire form ’ seems to me a throwback to a much earlier mode of thinking which , if widely readopted , would be about as intellectually productive as a Romanian state-run steel mill is economically productive . |
| 12 | With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ? |
| 13 | A typical instance of late medieval anxiety about time occurs in a letter of 1399 written by the wife of the ‘ Merchant of Prato ’ , Francesco di Marco Datini , to her ageing husband : ‘ In view of all you have to do , when you waste an hour , it seems to me a thousand … . |
| 14 | That there should be a chance for at least some children to learn Latin , not as a part of ‘ classical studies ’ , but essentially as a branch of linguistic studies , seems to me a benefit that schools should strive to preserve . |
| 15 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 16 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 17 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 18 | The two vices , he points out , are connected , for That seems to me a fitting explanation for the resolutely ‘ Implacable Malice ’ of Iago . |
| 19 | I do not like the graphic novel , and for a new work from a successful author to come only in this form seems to me a shame . |
| 20 | Now that , from the preface , seems to me a pretty clear statement of authorial intent , and the impression 's reinforced as Kurt continues : |
| 21 | For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) … |
| 22 | " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is . |
| 23 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 24 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 25 | ‘ And that seems to me a very uncharacteristic thing for you to say , ’ Willoughby said firmly . |
| 26 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 27 | is regarded as being essentially something which is neutral , which always seems to me a very wrong thing to say , I I 'm sure it 's quite incorrect . |
| 28 | This seems to me a very sound argument ; though I do wonder to how many cases of literary mistake it actually applies . |
| 29 | It seems to me a perfectly simple procedure . |
| 30 | Speculation at the top of their voices as to what fish it might be seems to me a waste of energy , but it contributes to the atmosphere . |