Example sentences of "but it seem [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 2 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 3 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 4 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 7 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 8 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 10 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 11 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
| 12 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 13 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 14 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 15 | But it seems a tremendous victory . |
| 16 | An assignment requires A and B to be parties to an agreement and A , without B's consent , to transfer rights to X. The Vienna Convention is silent on the assignment of treaty rights , but it seems an evident consequence of State sovereignty that where a treaty provides for an assignment it should be enforceable . |
| 17 | Tolonen was to step back into the job , but it seems the new T'ang wants a new man in the post . ’ |
| 18 | But it seems the only accounts the cash ended up in , were his own secret ones in Florida and Spain . |