Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 2 | Unlike Chinese porcelain , very popular in Europe at the time , the french porcelain was made from a previously fired glassy mixture , rather than from feldspar and kaolin . |
| 3 | The libretto , by Gottlieb Stephanie , was on a Turkish subject , highly popular in Vienna at the time : the war with Turkey meant that ‘ Turkish ’ customs and themes were very much on everyone 's minds . |
| 4 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 5 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 6 | Wilfrid was resident in Mercia at the time that Queen Osthryth was murdered by Mercian nobles in 697 ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 7 | Rather fortuitously , our residual list of 13 harpsichords includes at least one example by almost every known maker active in London at the time . |