Example sentences of "like a good idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Prince does to black music what the Butthole Surfers do to rock — survey its whole length and breadth , take whatever seems like a good idea , regardless of its proper place in the narrative of pop , gather then let loose with a supreme incontinence and disregard for modesty . |
| 3 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 4 | Sometimes it sounds like a good idea to tackle , say , health or education all through one day on the road , in a particular area . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems like a good idea to me , but then I hate drinking milk anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 9 | Asking the fire brigade for help when you 're locked out of your house may seem like a good idea . |
| 10 | Getting a friend to feed the fish seems like a good idea , but after you have learned the discipline to only feed that tiny amount it may be better not to trust the job to an inexperienced person . |
| 11 | A home aquarium of British Freshwater species sounds like a good idea , but there can be many problems . |
| 12 | SOUNDED LIKE a good idea — Mister Marc the silver-tongued rock ‘ n ’ roll pixie , Clown Prince of wig out rock poetry and sassy riff crazy singles caught in action back in his heyday . |
| 13 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Does n't a single Unix source technology sound like a good idea ? |
| 16 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 17 | The Legion sounded like a good idea : the pay was good , the uniforms smart , the bullshit no worse than the British Army , and there were varied postings abroad . |
| 18 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 19 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Sounds like a good idea , but you 've left it a bit late . |
| 22 | On the face of it this seems like a good idea . |
| 23 | She said it sounds like a good idea , till I get myself together . ’ |
| 24 | And what did we want to do select printer looks like a good idea . |
| 25 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |
| 26 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 27 | I said , ‘ That sounds like a good idea . ’ |
| 28 | Sounds like a good idea — apart from the aspirin . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ That sounds like a good idea . |