Example sentences of "seem [prep] me that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to me that the world of pop music , which I worshipped , was there to be altered and corrected . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to me that the Quirkes gloried in the poetry of paganism , but were not true pagans , eager to propitiate feared gods with flame and sacrifice . |
| 4 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 5 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 6 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But abruptly it seemed to me that the moment should have meaning , even if it were to my discredit . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that the question she asked had been simmering in her for some time . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that the house had a look of gentle triumph . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that the matrimonial question could have been dealt with more sympathetically and with greater understanding , as perhaps Winston Churchill could have handled it . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the swap file should reside on an uncompressed drive to gain maximum speed benefits — Windows can be slow enough without hampering its performance any further . |
| 16 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 18 | It seemed to me that the warm and welcoming hospitality of the Undercroft was the ‘ heart ’ of the whole enterprise , while , of course , the prayers for a hungry world said every day in the Chapel , were its ‘ soul ’ . |
| 19 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 20 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 21 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 22 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
| 23 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , it sometimes seems to me that the whole of this big , cold city is full of cripples , lunatics and the walking wounded . |
| 25 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 26 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
| 27 | It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers . |
| 28 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
| 29 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
| 30 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |