Example sentences of "it seem [art] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why it seemed no bad idea for somebody to know where I was yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed a good idea . |
| 3 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 4 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 5 | It seemed a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed a good idea to see what it was she was defending with such tenacity . |
| 7 | Wainfleet said : ‘ I told you , it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 8 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
| 9 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 10 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 11 | It seemed a good idea at the time , and it was agreed that all the shareholders would get an instrument of any description . |
| 12 | With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear . |
| 13 | It seemed a good idea , but Sophie hesitated . |
| 14 | It seemed a good idea to pin her thoughts elsewhere . |
| 15 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed a logical idea . |
| 17 | It seemed a better idea than sitting in the village street for three hours . |
| 18 | It seemed a better idea this time . |
| 19 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 20 | Peroxiding it seemed a hopeful idea . |
| 21 | It seemed an excellent idea to Leith to follow suit . |
| 22 | It seems a great idea and it 's a shame only to have one of them . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems a good idea , ’ said Penny Warlock , looking up to Glenda and wondering if she herself would be as impressive a figure after ten or fifteen years in the teaching profession . |
| 24 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 25 | Chairman I 'll try and be brief er I think the problem with the car boot sales is that they have been er hi-jacked commercially er it seems a good idea it 's , it 's another line another way of disposing of goods whether they 're straight goods or whether they 're they 're er misappropriated goods or whatever . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It seems an attractive idea that this might be a general scheme for all cells , ’ he said . |