Example sentences of "seem [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 2 | Edward seemed of a sudden bereft of further speech and Joan was at a loss for the right words . |
| 3 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 4 | The alternative to managerialism was ‘ corporatism ’ , a concept which had earlier found application in the study of fascism but which was now dusted off for use in what seemed like a new social era . |
| 5 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 6 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 7 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 8 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 9 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 10 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 11 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 12 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 13 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
| 14 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 15 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 16 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 17 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 18 | So America seemed like a good place to come . ’ |
| 19 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 20 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 22 | It seemed like a good option — a chance for chaos . |
| 23 | Martin sat down ; he had been wanting to get to know Sarah better for some time and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 24 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 25 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 26 | It seemed like a good argument for eliminating me . |
| 27 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 28 | So this seemed like a good compromise . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know many people and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed like a good deal so we went down to Rufford to check the company out . |