Sentence examples for which seems extraordinary from inspiring English sources

He was at my 18th birthday which seems extraordinary".

Whatever the circumstances, a housing application can never be made to a housing department on behalf of children - a nationwide policy which seems extraordinary given the aims of the government's Green Paper of 2003, "Every Child Matters".

The permanent secretary Nick McPherson said that if things continued as they were we would be looking at a budget deficit of £100bn, which seemed extraordinary at the time.

He made an obscure reference to a book I had written about the Carr's biscuit factory [Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831 1931] which seemed extraordinary.

The Yankees have won 94 games, which seems at once routine and extraordinary.

(F 2) The narratives from daily life illuminate that to have diabetes as a mother of a newborn is a situation of extraordinary exposure which seems to challenge the transition to a confident mother.

It's not just that the phenomenon of three siblings who all published poetry and fiction seems extraordinary (which other family can boast as much: the Sitwells?), but the number itself has a mythic or folkloric appeal: the three Fates, the three Furies, the three witches in Macbeth, the three daughters of Lear, the three bears.

"As head of jurisdiction, I must take steps – which sometimes seem extraordinary and, in this case, regrettable in the extreme – to preserve public confidence in the administration of justice and the institutional integrity of the system," he said.

Which seems reasonable at first blush, but has one extraordinary implication.

He came out with the extraordinary line, "I lead to unleash your leadership", which seems to mean everything and nothing.

Which seems odd.