Example sentences of "seemed for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 2 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 3 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 4 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 5 | The County Associations which were then formed to demand a widening of the suffrage and a redistribution of Parliamentary seats , and the General Association , a substitute Parliament , or anti-Parliament , in which some of them proposed to combine , seemed for a time to threaten drastic and violent constitutional changes . |