Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] to me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which by virtue its of its phraseology , the criterion appears to me to do . |
| 2 | Over-dependence on the behavioural elements of sexual therapy seems to me to run the risk of ignoring the underlying emotional factors . |
| 3 | This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case . |
| 4 | My Lords , to sum up , every indication seems to me to point away from adopting a neutral meaning of the word ‘ appropriation . ’ |
| 5 | The jurisdiction issue seems to me to divide into two parts . |
| 6 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 7 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 8 | The reason is that erm the question of membership seems to me to relate essentially to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 9 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 10 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 11 | The first was stated by Lord Reid who said : Restraint of trade appears to me to imply that a man contracts to give up some freedom which otherwise he would have had . |
| 12 | Adorno seems to me to situate the problem , without necessarily being the solution to it . |
| 13 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 14 | Barnes ’ impassivity on receiving this message seems to me to show a rooted unwillingness to believe ill of BCCI . ’ |
| 15 | Such an approach appears to me to involve the possibility at least of an immense increase in the cost of litigation in which statutory construction is involved . |
| 16 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This analysis appears to me to have been authoritatively adopted by the House of Lords in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 . |
| 18 | ( The work of Hoggart 1957 and others on popular culture seems to me to constitute largely a variant of the first tradition , though with some Marxist influence in some cases . ) |
| 19 | The common claim the that the stories are remarkable for their even tone seems to me to miss the point . |
| 20 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 21 | At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word . |
| 22 | Neither the wording of the section nor its underlying purpose seems to me to call for such an anomalous distinction . |
| 23 | As I have already intimated , Hirschi 's control perspective seems to me to invite expansion along classical lines , rather than narrowing . |
| 24 | But his defence of an independent natural creation seems to me to apply just as powerfully to our home acres . |