Example sentences of "it may sound [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may sound boring to you , but it is n't boring to me . |
| 2 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said , a lot of women deserved to be raped . |
| 3 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said . |
| 4 | Cos the way he has his house it 's like er been a okay he 's off er , I know it may sound nasty what I say about him , but he 's alright , he 's a good guy like , his house is a bit of a upside down place , like |
| 5 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 6 | It may sound strange , but I became interested in her . |
| 7 | It may sound pretentious in casual conversation , or create dangerous ambiguity in a legal document ( though this view of legal discourse can be challenged ) . |
| 8 | I would honestly say , and it may sound arrogant , that although the White Paper came out in 1975 and it was some sort of a landmark to point the way , we were never conscious here of any tremendous pressure or even really of any light pressure to reorientate our services to the Priority Services . |
| 9 | It may sound impossible but it is not . |
| 10 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 11 | It may sound smug , but I 'm very fortunate . |
| 12 | It may sound surprising therefore that the problem of sex selection before birth has still not been solved , nor is it likely that it will be solved for natural conceptions in the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | There are four markets in which its designers say it will do equally well : graphics , we have already outlined ; then there are games consoles — Taos ' original home territory ; and embedded applications : it may sound odd to have Taos running in a photocopier or a drinks machine , but the tiny kernel makes it ideal , says Hinsley . |
| 14 | There are four markets in which its designers say it will do equally well : graphics , we have already outlined ; then there are games consoles — Taos ' original home territory ; and embedded applications : it may sound odd to have Taos running in a photocopier or a drinks machine , but the tiny kernel makes it ideal , says Hinsley . |
| 15 | One said : ‘ It may sound far-fetched but it looks increasingly likely . |
| 16 | It 's all very inwardlooking , and a lot of the time I find myself — it may sound unforgivable — ignorant of what 's going on outside me and the influences that are going around . |
| 17 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 18 | It may sound trite , but how do you explain adoption to a three-year-old ? |
| 19 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |
| 20 | Although the results of reorganization and the distribution of responsibilities which arose from it may sound confusing , the system was clearer than before . |
| 21 | ‘ It may sound unbelievable , but we are such a good match . |
| 22 | At three one it may look comfortable , it may sound comfortable , believe me in d this last quarter of an hour , even twenty minutes it has n't been . |
| 23 | Although the question may seem clumsier for it , it is absolutely necessary to give a genuine choice , and even though it may sound stilted to ask , ‘ Do you approve or disapprove of … ’ , at least this presents a fair choice . |
| 24 | Try sitting the other side of your desk ; it may sound crazy but it shows you the world from another angle . |
| 25 | It may sound interesting but it 's very dangerous . |
| 26 | But though it may sound free and uninhibited , the skeleton framework of harmony or a theme , which can remain almost completely hidden , supports the whole and gives it its coherence . |
| 27 | ‘ It may sound plausible , but is it correct ? ’ asks Charlie Lewis , an academic psychologist at Reading University . |
| 28 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 29 | National population growth slowed perceptibly , but the major concentrations of population remained , tightly drawn in conurbations as Geddes described them ; ‘ Constellations we can not call them ; conglomerations is , alas ! nearer the mark at present , but it may sound unappreciative ; what of ‘ Conurbations ’ ? ’ |
| 30 | It may sound obvious , but take time to explain to your child that we all become ill from time to time , and we are given medicine to make us well again . |