Example sentences of "seemed at the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural .
5 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 .
6 Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma .
7 Or so it seemed at the time .
8 It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority .
9 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 .
10 The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM .
11 It seemed at the time too obvious for extensive formulation , but had they spelt it out it would have amounted to something like 2 .
12 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 .
13 Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans .
14 ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy .
15 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 .
16 It seemed at the time that meeting the Fracxillians could created some sort of major turning point in my career .
17 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 .
18 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 .
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