Example sentences of "[coord] it seem [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mister Johnny talked in his gobbly voice all the way and it seemed a friendly noise now , pushing the night back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And it seemed a good laugh . |
| 6 | You ca n't insure cash , as you know , but who cares , and it seemed a good present . |
| 7 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 8 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whatever was supposed to be wrong had never hindered Rosenthal 's career , and it seemed the real reason for Udinese 's calling off the transfer — they signed Argentinian striker Abel Balbo instead — was the level of anti-semitism in the town . |
| 14 | ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 16 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 17 | Bert knew that Mrs Tremayne wanted a fence repaired and it seemed an excellent opportunity to use his sudden free time by visiting Four Winds . |
| 18 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 19 | This represented a very different target group to the one with which I was familiar , and it seemed an alien approach to me . |
| 20 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded . |
| 25 | No details yet ( although a possible game against Italy has been mooted ) however , and it seems the national side may not have an engagement before they square up to the World Champions in November — gross score from the last two encounters being Wales 9 Australia 101 . |
| 26 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 27 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 28 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 29 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 30 | 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 . |