Example sentences of "it seem strange " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 2 | It seemed strange to me that many dead Germans we had come across in the built-up areas after leaving the landing beaches yesterday morning had no boots on , some were even minus socks . |
| 3 | It seemed strange without Sid next door , and the barrage seemed much worse than yesterday evening . |
| 4 | It seemed strange , walking over brown leaves to a very English suburban house in Maresfield Gardens to visit the great mid-European . |
| 5 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 6 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 7 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 8 | It seemed strange , to have that old pamphlet by me , that tiny piece of a long-past England that had found its way to this Greek island , these pine trees , this pagan earth . |
| 9 | It seemed strange that it should still be there , in a trunk . |
| 10 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 11 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 12 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 13 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 14 | For a people who pride themselves on their love of animals , and considering the age-old human dependence on animals for food and work and as pets , it seems strange that a college to train veterinary surgeons in this country was only established two hundred years ago in response to a plan proposed by a Frenchman . |
| 15 | It seems strange the parishioners would wish to burn their patron saint , but another theory suggests the effigy was originally a plaster statue taken from the church to avoid destruction after the Reformation . |
| 16 | It seems strange now , but I never complained to classmates or teachers . |
| 17 | Having conquered the killer epidemics of infectious diseases it seems strange that we do not have a greater life expectancy in this sense too . |
| 18 | It seems strange that this great surge of medical interest in dietary fibre should have occurred only in the past decade . |
| 19 | It seems strange that I can spend ten times as much on a Fender product and be provided with none of this ! |
| 20 | It seems strange to me to see cattle out in a field in mid-winter . |
| 21 | It seems strange at first that this should have been so . |
| 22 | Curious in that with the bulk of the country 's youth taking their cultural signposts from America and the more visceral thrills offered by rock'n'roll , it seems strange that such a dated and wrinkly musical form should enjoy such an upsurge in fortunes , particularly when it faced competition from sexier young pups operating in the rock idiom such as Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard . |
| 23 | It seems strange that this phenomenon , so necessary both for social cohesion and for the development of real harmony between ourselves and our horses , has been given less attention than pecking order : a reflection , perhaps , on the observer more than on the observed . |
| 24 | In any event , it seems strange to penalise the good citizen , whose natural instinct is to trust the revenue and pay taxes when they are demanded of him . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it seems strange to me that all my friends do n't want to join me . |
| 26 | It seems strange , moreover , that Professor Williams fails to mention male rape fantasies or to suggest that these might be considered in assessing whether the defendant was prepared to override the victim 's wishes . |
| 27 | It seems strange . ’ |
| 28 | It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling . |
| 29 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 30 | And it seems strange in an area where we just lost General Hospital and everything has moved to , that , which is a nationally renowned hospital . |