Example sentences of "but it seem a [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 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
10 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
11 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
12 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | But it seems a tremendous victory . |
15 | 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 . |