Example sentences of "but it seem an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 4 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
| 5 | 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 . |