Example sentences of "[noun] seem at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |
| 7 | Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma . |