Example sentences of "it seem appropriate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Cowie said : ‘ It was the Ipswich branch of CAMRA which mounted a publicity campaign to save the brewery and so it seemed appropriate that the launch of Pride should be at the festival . ’ |
| 2 | I worked beside Bill and when he had to resign it seemed appropriate for me to step forward . |
| 3 | ‘ With the environment under threat , it seemed appropriate to develop a cleaner running , more economical version of our range , ’ says Smith . |
| 4 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 5 | For a silver wedding picture , it seemed appropriate to use a silver theme , so the oval frame shown in the facing photograph was an obvious but perfect choice . |
| 6 | The Russians for their part promised to recognize the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary when it seemed appropriate and Austria agreed not to oppose the union of Bulgaria and eastern Roumelia , if circumstances brought it about . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the Broads were due to be given National Park status in April 1989 , and it seemed appropriate to mark the occasion with a modern study , albeit a subjective one . |
| 8 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 9 | ‘ Missus , ’ I added , because it seemed appropriate . |
| 10 | ‘ It seemed appropriate . ’ |
| 11 | But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America . |
| 12 | She had n't said it unkindly , and , in the state he was in , it seemed appropriate . |
| 13 | In this situation it seemed appropriate for the staff at Perth College to offer educational opportunities which would parallel those available in other music fields . |
| 14 | It seemed appropriate . |
| 15 | Thus , while the French economy ( as well as that of West Germany ) was clearly pulling ahead of the British , de Gaulle was eager to go his own way and even defy the United States ( not least in economic matters ) wherever it seemed appropriate . |
| 16 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 17 | It seems appropriate that the language of Four Quartets should enter the novel at one point — appropriate , too , of course , that it should be mocked . |
| 18 | It seems appropriate . |
| 19 | IT SEEMS appropriate to end the Eighties with the band that decided that this decade was quite enough . |
| 20 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 21 | Clearly the maintenance of discipline within a school is in all pupils ' best interests if it helps produce an environment conducive to learning , and it seems appropriate to leave with teachers the decision of how to achieve that objective , acting on the guidance provided by HMI , the Elton Report and so on . |
| 22 | Similarly the priest acts as a ‘ representative ’ to God on our behalf as human beings rather than as women or men specifically ; so it seems appropriate to have both women and men performing this representative role . |
| 23 | In broad terms , because soft systems thinking represents a unique way of encouraging an observer to learn about a situation , it should appeal to virtually anyone who has an enquiring mind , a notion reflected in the closing paragraphs of Systems Thinking , Systems practice ; as I have made frequent reference to this work throughout , it seems appropriate to finish my book with the following quote from Professor Peter Checkland , who says about soft systems thinking : |
| 24 | On the one hand , it seems appropriate that the great days of verba precativa in imperial constitutions should end with Diocletian , for with Constantine came change : he disposed of formalities of language , and from this point on there was no sense in any test to which wordings should confirm . |
| 25 | In the season of goodwill it seems appropriate to contemplate a fungus that makes a good living out of parasitising insects ; but it is so mild-mannered that its hosts ( and most biologists ) are hardly aware of its existence |
| 26 | Reference to chimpanzees and apes has been made here and there throughout the preceding chapters and it seems appropriate to relate just one example of their mental processes in these pages . |
| 27 | It seems appropriate to bridge the transition into the next section with a long appreciation of Wordsworth written by John Keats in a letter of May 1818 , in which he puts Wordsworth above Milton as a ‘ philosopher ’ ; Keats 's judgments are usually right ! |
| 28 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 29 | It seems appropriate therefore that disruptive pupils have full access to the curriculum which requires that schools acknowledge this in their planning . |
| 30 | As this is , to our knowledge , the first observation of pure 3-D paraconductivity in any isotropic superconductor , it seems appropriate to address the difficulty of observing similar behaviour in other materials ( most conventional superconductors are , of course , three-dimensional ) . |