Example sentences of "seems [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and therefore you 're thrown back at er finding something else , this sort of vague compromise of director of this that or this that and the other , er , er , appeared , and er it seems to me A long winded , er but also , it indicates something against what you 've already tried to do , which is to merge the two together . |
| 2 | A typical instance of late medieval anxiety about time occurs in a letter of 1399 written by the wife of the ‘ Merchant of Prato ’ , Francesco di Marco Datini , to her ageing husband : ‘ In view of all you have to do , when you waste an hour , it seems to me a thousand … . |
| 3 | " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is . |
| 4 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 5 | His undoubted pace is being sacrificed on an altar of greater sevens savvy elsewhere in the squad which seems to me a reasonable gambit to adopt . |
| 6 | It is the work of a novelist and Journalist , not an academic , and notwithstanding the sometimes excessive brightness of the prose and the shortwindedness of the articles it seems to me a brilliant late embodiment of the Anglo-American tradition of literary and social criticism . |
| 7 | Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ? |
| 8 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 9 | Now the year nineteen oh nine seems to me a curious year . |
| 10 | That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family . |
| 11 | That seems to me a complete and utter nonsense |
| 12 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 13 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 14 | The two vices , he points out , are connected , for That seems to me a fitting explanation for the resolutely ‘ Implacable Malice ’ of Iago . |
| 15 | For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) … |
| 16 | Now I 've not seen this suggested , but it seems to me a fair way of doing it . |
| 17 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 18 | That seems to me a basic requirement of er , of all the sale of food . |
| 19 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 20 | ( It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘ distancing ’ or ‘ alienating ’ devices : rather the opposite . ) |
| 21 | ( p. 3 ) This aim , which seems to me an obvious piece of common sense , caused uproar among many teachers of English , who feared a return to the rote-learning of the 1950s . |
| 22 | It seems to me an unfortunate coincidence , therefore , that the pharmaceutical company that provided financial support for the consensus group chose to mount a postal advertising campaign within a week of the group 's report , urging surgeons to use its particular low molecular weight heparin for venous thromboprophylaxis and citing the consensus group 's recommendations as evidence for this . |
| 23 | Using this ‘ recognition ’ to explore the positivity of how domestic relations are lived seems to me an important step beyond assertions that the academic should side with the oppressed … |
| 24 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 25 | It seems to me the other one was almost casual . |
| 26 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 27 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 28 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 29 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 30 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |