Example sentences of "[conj] it seem a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does not , you may even wish to suggest one of them yourself , in circumstances where it seems a lesser evil than a final warning or dismissal . |
| 2 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 3 | Although it seems a good opportunity , it is no long term basis for a good relationship with our paymasters . |
| 4 | If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system . |
| 5 | The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow . |
| 6 | That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future . |
| 7 | One of the attractions of swearing for a child is that it seems a grown-up thing to do . |
| 8 | I could n't see anything , so it seemed a logical assumption . |
| 9 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 10 | Mister Johnny talked in his gobbly voice all the way and it seemed a friendly noise now , pushing the night back . |
| 11 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
| 12 | With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear . |
| 13 | And it seemed a good laugh . |
| 14 | You ca n't insure cash , as you know , but who cares , and it seemed a good present . |
| 15 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 16 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 17 | The most frightening is rainforest destruction , and being a carpenter and joiner by trade anyway I have used many threatened species in my past and it seemed a good thing to start with . |
| 18 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 19 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 20 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 21 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 23 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 24 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 25 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 26 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 27 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 28 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 29 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 30 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |