Example sentences of "[adj] idea at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this seemed a good idea at the time , current strategy at WH Smith is to have full control , as in the buying up of 100 per cent of Molinaire , the TV services company , in July . |
| 2 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 3 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 4 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 8 | It seemed a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was just one of those things which seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 10 | Wainfleet said : ‘ I told you , it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 11 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 12 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 13 | It seemed a good idea at the time , and it was agreed that all the shareholders would get an instrument of any description . |
| 14 | I thought it was a good idea at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 16 | Because it seemed like an opportune idea at the time . |
| 17 | The rubber hot-water bottle was a very modern idea at the time the house was built . |
| 18 | It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time , to leave behind her northern home town , the scene of all her unhappy memories , and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated , to take over Caro 's lease . |