Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |
| 2 | It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings . |
| 3 | It seems to me quite unrealistic to divorce the buying of the chocolate from the supplying of the records . |
| 4 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 5 | It was a technique applied to anyone sufficiently important to warrant the effort , such as the Bishop of Hereford , who died in Italy in 1282 . |
| 6 | Indeed , as early as 1954 , James Kinsley notes that " it is no exaggeration to say that most of our students — Scots , English and Welsh alike — come to us hardly able to construe the English language , and unschooled in the patient , critical reading we require of them . " |
| 7 | However , it seems to us quite impossible to rewrite the two agreements in this matter as a matter of construction … |
| 8 | It seems to us quite unrealistic to say that he would have felt insulted . |