Example sentences of "[conj] it seems [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does not , you may even wish to suggest one of them yourself , in circumstances where it seems a lesser evil than a final warning or dismissal . |
| 2 | Although it seems a good opportunity , it is no long term basis for a good relationship with our paymasters . |
| 3 | If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system . |
| 4 | That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future . |
| 5 | One of the attractions of swearing for a child is that it seems a grown-up thing to do . |
| 6 | The very pages of his own magazine express the discernibly patronizing indulgence that it seems the American expatriate community extended to him . |
| 7 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If it seems an ambitious goal , let me ask you a simple question . |
| 14 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 15 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | But it seems a tremendous victory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Tolonen was to step back into the job , but it seems the new T'ang wants a new man in the post . ’ |
| 20 | But it seems the only accounts the cash ended up in , were his own secret ones in Florida and Spain . |
| 21 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 22 | If you want to make a trip to China then , even while it seems an impossible dream , start planning that trip . |
| 23 | When it seems the right time . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't really know the answer though it seems a fair question . |
| 25 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |