Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 2 | It seemed to me to be a crazy world . |
| 3 | Making a slow pass behind the surf line to try to gauge the size of the breakers , it seemed to me to be rather dangerous . |
| 4 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 5 | It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself . |
| 6 | As the intervention system remains entirely in place , and as the Community has not decided to try to make savings by reforming the system to make it less attractive , it seemed to us to be the wrong way to tackle the problem . |
| 7 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 8 | This is a consideration averred in the declaration , and it appears to me to be expressed in the letter , construed with the surrounding circumstances . |
| 9 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 10 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems to me to be inconsistent with the spirit of liberalisation to have a mandatory code that necessitates a cumbersome and bureaucratic certification process . ’ |
| 12 | It seems to me to be accepted policy to stop a black man driving a new car . |
| 13 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 14 | It seems to me to be entirely right that this should be so . |
| 15 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 16 | However , it seems to me to be incorrect to conclude as a result that article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it seems to me to be significant in this context that when , in article 58 , the E.E.C . |
| 18 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
| 19 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 20 | If that means that the wardship judge has wider powers than a natural parent ( on the extent of which I have declined to express an opinion ) , it seems to me to be warranted by the authorities to which I have referred . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 22 | It seems to me to be both useless and presumptuous to attempt to pierce the incognito of the essential Godhead . |
| 23 | by the er Trading Association , it seems to me to be quite a sensible charter , and er I propose that we write to the Association saying this is very good and can we get it |
| 24 | It seems to me to be important enough to be worth tabling if that can be arranged . |
| 25 | Now it seems to me obvious that there is such a problem , er and to deny it seems to me to be to be denying the obvious . |
| 26 | Obviously a longer , longer lead in on that , erm , and , and the county would , clearly need to put some funding into the development to ensure that those er , those satellite businesses operate , and only when you fund those out of the rural economic development 's initiative , but it seems to me to be important that we should ensure that businesses operating in the rural parts of the county have equal access to the facilities of business link and business advice . |
| 27 | It 's it 's it seems to me to be applauded . |
| 28 | Certainly the minimum of one-and-a-half days per month envisaged by the Home Office as being all that will be required , it seems to me to be very wide of the mark . |
| 29 | IT SEEMS to me to be tough on Dr John Bromley , head of a four-GP practice , that he should take sole blame after a two-year-old boy had wandered into a surgery and swallowed some carbolic acid which should have been locked away . |
| 30 | Mm i it , I , I , I , I d I du n no as I say i i it , it , it seems to me to be an incredibly clever |