Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 2 | The terms of section 40 seem to me strongly to support the conclusions reached so far . |
| 3 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 4 | It seems to me better to consider the particular relationship in hand , and see whether or not , as a matter of policy economic loss should be recoverable . |
| 5 | Father James Morrow , a Roman Catholic priest and pro-life campaigner , emerged from the hearing of his application by magistrates in Bingley , west Yorkshire and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’ |
| 6 | Father James Morrow , a campaigner from Braemar , emerged from the 50-minute hearing of his application by magistrates at Bingley , west Yorkshire , and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’ |
| 7 | It seems to me hard to do the latter without being able to do the former . |
| 8 | To say that seems to me really to beg the question . |
| 9 | It 'll be up to someone else to apply the data directly ’ , he said . |
| 10 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 11 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 12 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 13 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 15 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |