Example sentences of "seem [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 2 | Allied commanders seemed delighted at the outcome . |
| 3 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 4 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 5 | She seemed ill at the meet just before the accident . |
| 6 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 7 | The senator , ever affable , seemed unworried at the thought of taking the Maggot into polite society . |
| 8 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 9 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 10 | They seemed shocked at the suggestion . |
| 11 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 12 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 13 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 14 | It seemed cheap at the price — five guineas for travel and a month 's board and lodging . |
| 15 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 16 | And he seemed surprised at the Darlington rents rise which is around 100 per cent in some cases . |
| 17 | He seemed alright at the moment , though , and his stroking was even and relaxed . |
| 18 | but he seemed alright at the weekend , he was decorating at the weekend |
| 19 | The others seemed unsurprised at the eccentricity . |
| 20 | Things seem hopeless at the moment , but it 's not our policy to let kidnappers get away with their crimes . ’ |
| 21 | Most of them seem apprehensive at the prospect of a possible loss of authority , failing to see that , on the contrary , their grip on matters would be greatly strengthened . |
| 22 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 23 | They follow the line of the cliff edge closely and seem curious at the presence of humans . |
| 24 | It used to amaze me that we treat criminals in a way which is guaranteed to perpetuate their self-image as a ‘ criminal ’ and reinforce negative beliefs about self and society , and then seem surprised at the high rate of recidivism . |
| 25 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
| 26 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 27 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 28 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 29 | It seems appropriate at the present time , therefore , that the suspicion of PVI , particularly in patients with decompensated liver disease as indicated by the presence of an appreciably reduced portal blood flow , needs to be confirmed by conventional arterial portography . |
| 30 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |