Example sentences of "seem to me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 2 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 3 | At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse . |
| 4 | But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy . |
| 5 | Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened . |
| 6 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
| 7 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that , in this way and with some fresh views to submit , and possessed with a totally new interest in the Orient , I might contribute something , however modest , to the Italian ‘ problem ’ . |
| 9 | My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle . |
| 10 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
| 12 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 13 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 14 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 15 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It seems to me that business could not function properly if such information could not be kept confidential . ’ |
| 17 | And here it seems to me that music education is one of the most neglected things in our culture today . |
| 18 | Now it seems to me that for Dorothy Heathcote man 's curiosity about the world is the very source of her interest in drama , of her interest in history , of her interest in education and indeed , of her interest in Life . |
| 19 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 20 | It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools . |
| 21 | It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise . |
| 22 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 23 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
| 24 | Whilst it is always desirable to have the central repertoire available in the lower price ranges , it seems to me that ‘ bargain ’ labels really come into their own by offering less familiar fayre . |
| 25 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 26 | It seems to me that , in this matter , the ASB risks a serious distortion of the substance of the transaction , as the clean-up is primarily a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 27 | It seems to me that anorexia nervosa acts as a metaphor for all the problems of adolescence . |
| 28 | It seems to me that art of all kinds emerges out of deep human needs , needs that can not be met anywhere else . |
| 29 | Joinville reported the king 's reply to his counsellors who opposed the treaty with England of 1259 : ‘ it seems to me that what I give him [ Henry III ] I am employing well , because he was not my man , and now he enters into my homage ’ . |
| 30 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |