Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 2 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 3 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 4 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 5 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 6 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 7 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 8 | He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them . |
| 9 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 10 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 11 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 12 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 13 | They are ways which , in the light of the previous two hundred years of intellectual engagement with these areas , seem to me to be the most fruitful . |
| 14 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 15 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 16 | That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved . |
| 17 | This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions . |
| 18 | Rich and protean , his word-seam seemed to me to be the very fount of knowledge itself , a mulchy conceptual bed which might be sown merely by the fact of being listened to , thus engendering all ideas for all time . |
| 19 | He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence . |
| 20 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |
| 21 | I can now turn to what appears to me to be the crucial question in this case : was the 1s. 6d. an ‘ ordinary retail selling price ’ within the meaning of section 8 ? |
| 22 | Erm now that sounds to me to be the best way of doing . |
| 23 | But that is neither the history nor the practice of our professional system , not just er for accountants but for the legal system as well and I think it has stood the test of time , er he will know that there has been er there is a procedure for the joint disciplinaries scheme er which enables the er institute to investigate whether there has been compliance by member firms with the standards promulgated er with er er by the er er auditing practices board and that seems to me to be the er right way forward . |
| 24 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 25 | erm He does seem to me to be the best . |
| 26 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 27 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 28 | Underline what seem to you to be the main or key words in the passage , including all names and any words beginning with capital letters . |
| 29 | Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year . |
| 30 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |