Example sentences of "it seems a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of the world today , it seems a crying shame . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now there 's less room for thought and for feeling , and it seems a great tiredness is good for keeping people steady . |
| 5 | It seems a great idea and it 's a shame only to have one of them . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems a great step forward . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've already had a brief look at the Arms Park and it seems a great ground . ’ |
| 8 | Even with these extra expenses , it seems a small price to pay to increase your chances of staying in your home . |
| 9 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 10 | ‘ By the road , it seems a long way , but I need only to walk a kilometre across the fields beyond the farm . |
| 11 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
| 12 | Oh it seems a long way to go just for five days skiing . |
| 13 | It seems a long time since a general book on this theme appeared in English , and John Whitehead 's provides an all-round introduction . |
| 14 | I 'd just like to ask er if it 's not to start on the er phase three before the spring of ninety five , it seems a long time two and half years time before they a , they make a start ! |
| 15 | Would it not be possible to make an earlier start in view of the great need for a for homes , it seems a long time to wait ? |
| 16 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ It seems a long time since we had a chance to talk alone . ’ |
| 18 | It seems a long time since we ate together in this kitchen . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems a long time since this morning . ’ |
| 20 | It seems a long time since we started , |
| 21 | ‘ It seems a useful concept . ’ |
| 22 | But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It seems a logical thing to say if you fancy climbing a Munro , but apparently we are living a lie . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems a reasonable supposition . ’ |
| 26 | It seems a reasonable conjecture that , if he had known about the decree , he would have acted on it , or at least given reasons for not acting on it . |
| 27 | It seems a reasonable rule of thumb that any genuine offers of help and support from people or organizations will be accompanied by a name and address , and a willingness to be checked out as to their motive in making contact . |
| 28 | It seems a reasonable guess that if he had eaten bear he would have commented on such ipsophagy . |
| 29 | " It seems a reasonable assumption . " |
| 30 | It seems a strange edict for an empire so intent on spreading the culture of the vine , but it was one of economy and rationalisation , in an endeavour to effect a balance between the overproduction of wine and the shortage of basic food crops . |