Example sentences of "be widely [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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1 | Although his actions were widely condemned at the time and subsequently , it is a more open question whether his objectives were so much at odds with those of his government . |
2 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
3 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
4 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
5 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
6 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
7 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |