Example sentences of "seemed [adj] at the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The senator , ever affable , seemed unworried at the thought of taking the Maggot into polite society . |
| 6 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They seemed shocked at the suggestion . |
| 9 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Peugeot ‘ seemed best at the price . ’ |
| 12 | It seemed cheap at the price — five guineas for travel and a month 's board and lodging . |
| 13 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 14 | but he seemed alright at the weekend , he was decorating at the weekend |
| 15 | He seemed alright at the moment , though , and his stroking was even and relaxed . |
| 16 | The others seemed unsurprised at the eccentricity . |