Example sentences of "seem at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 2 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
| 3 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 4 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 5 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 6 | Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma . |
| 7 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 8 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 9 | From less radical perspectives than Webb 's also the religious and political zeal of party seemed at the root of controversy within antislavery . |
| 10 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |
| 11 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 12 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 13 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 14 | It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 . |
| 15 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 16 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 17 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 18 | Other problems converged with this one , and the solution that was found constituted what seemed at the time a natural development , and seems in retrospect , the decisive start of a second stage . |
| 19 | It seemed at the time that meeting the Fracxillians could created some sort of major turning point in my career . |
| 20 | ESTABLISHING HOW THINGS SEEMED AT THE OUTSET |
| 21 | How poor her own memories seemed at the side of this . |
| 22 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 23 | Yet , however serious the crisis seemed at the time , and for all the interest which it has subsequently generated , it was essentially a passing thunderstorm . |
| 24 | One would therefore have to believe that many or most of the observed particles such as gluons or quarks are not really elementary , as they seem at the moment , but that they are bound states of the fundamental N = 8 particles . |
| 25 | These Swedish bats seem at the moment to be unique in apparently losing interest in the street lights from May to late summer . |
| 26 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 27 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 28 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 29 | The style was constantly attracting new figures and had influenced , directly or indirectly , almost every significant young painter in Europe ; even Matisse , whose art had always seemed at the opposite pole to Cubism , was introducing a hitherto unknown severity into his painting in preparation for Cubistic experiments in 1915 . |
| 30 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |