Example sentences of "seem [prep] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain seemed at times to be close to open class war ; Mrs Thatcher denounced ‘ the enemy within ’ . |
| 2 | Rory made left and right turns in quick succession , seemed to go back on himself , seemed at times to be driving blind . |
| 3 | The embarrassing scenes he makes in New York 's suburban streets and supermarkets seem at times more real than the enormities of his nightmare past . |
| 4 | No wonder Adam had seemed at times to hate her , certainly to despise her . |
| 5 | Funny how unreal it all seems at times , he wrote . |
| 6 | The Waste Land seems at times to be attempting to piece together some new religion out of fragments of the old . |
| 7 | Furthermore , Unwin seems at times unsympathetic to labour as a background for poetry : |
| 8 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 9 | Gilligan seems at times to be suggesting that women are naturally , rather than socially , inclined towards giving relationship-oriented moral judgements . |
| 10 | Even Britomart , who seems at times Spenser 's ideal , is presented as open to uncontrollable fury because of her feminine nature . |
| 11 | It seems at times to dwell excessively and inaccurately on the ineffectiveness of the English resistance ( see below ) , and is likely for the 990s at least to be at best a partial record . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 13 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 14 | If the sound balance on this Archiv recording can seem at times a little unyielding , it is amply repayed by a freshness and dramatic spontaneity from a team of soloists who only have to have their names on the cover for us to be assured of the recording 's qualities . |