Example sentences of "seemed at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Stevens , ’ he began with a false air of nonchalance , but then seemed at a loss how to continue . |
| 2 | Mr Lewis came to a halt and for a moment seemed at a loss as to how he should go on . |
| 3 | David Thomson felt that , ‘ Hoffman seemed at a loss … in one of his few concessions to the big-salary syndrome . ’ |
| 4 | He seemed at a loss for words , and Ward made no attempt to help him . |
| 5 | Lucie seemed at a loss for words . |
| 6 | ESTABLISHING HOW THINGS SEEMED AT THE OUTSET |
| 7 | From less radical perspectives than Webb 's also the religious and political zeal of party seemed at the root of controversy within antislavery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma . |
| 14 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 15 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 18 | It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It seemed at the time that meeting the Fracxillians could created some sort of major turning point in my career . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | How poor her own memories seemed at the side of this . |