Example sentences of "seems [prep] me that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
| 2 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 3 | Indeed , it sometimes seems to me that the whole of this big , cold city is full of cripples , lunatics and the walking wounded . |
| 4 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 5 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
| 6 | It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers . |
| 7 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
| 8 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
| 9 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |
| 10 | It seems to me that the only possible way of finding out what it is like is to live it . |
| 11 | Now it seems to me that the Churches have a great deal to gain from this method of selling their message . |
| 12 | It often seems to me that the lay of the land itself reveals the angle from which a mark is meant to be approached . |
| 13 | We have the possibilities of a postmodern , post-nationalist way of relating , but it seems to me that the prerequisite of that in these islands is the end of the United Kingdom as we have known it . |
| 14 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
| 15 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 16 | It seems to me that the Cabinet has an obsessively self-protective herd instinct which could be its undoing . |
| 17 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , as I have already indicated , it seems to me that the very claim of pedagogy to professional status is based on the same supposition . |
| 19 | It seems to me that the inspector , on instructions from his legal department , is adopting an inappropriate course based on the facts of this case . |
| 20 | It seems to me that the implication in such an attitude is that the space can be filled — it is possible — and that this is therefore a more simple and perhaps less courageous attitude than that of the anorexic . |
| 21 | It seems to me that the really critical thing that has happened since the emergence of the gay movement is the affirmation of our identity through a sense of community , through an involvement with each other . |
| 22 | Applying these criteria , it seems to me that the type of deployment of nuclear weapons which can most clearly be argued to entail an illegal threat of force is one which involves a threat of first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances . |
| 24 | Mr chairman Derek I 've lived in the town for something like thirty five years and seems to me that the problem here is a lot of mistrust between people who use the theatre and the board somewhere people are not getting answers . |
| 25 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 26 | It seems to me that the Dinka language , unlike modern , educated , and for the most part metropolitan English , compels its speakers to integrate the moral and physical attributes of persons together within the physical matrix of the human body . |
| 27 | But it seems to me that the theories of Freud must be seen as centrally important . |
| 28 | Thus it seems to me that the general principles of object-relations through identification , object-cathexis , and internalization must be extended to the whole psychoanalytic theory of personality . |
| 29 | It seems to me that the only waste is not to recycle it . |
| 30 | It seems to me that the New Testament says very clearly that many people came to Jesus asking for a sign and he pointed to himself . |