Example sentences of "circumstance of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time . |
| 2 | Given its structure and the circumstances of the time , no one should be surprised . |
| 3 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 4 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 5 | The whole thing has been that , so it 's not so much … it 's just the whole circumstances of the time that one has lived in . |
| 6 | However , the successful operation of the snake was hindered by the adverse circumstances of the time : exchange rates were no longer pegged against the dollar ; there had been a massive increase in oil price which resulted in larger payments imbalances and severe exchange rate pressures ; domestic rates of inflation were showing a tendency to diverge markedly ; and the world economy was moving into recession . |
| 7 | The marriage , too , had been a miscalculation , but given the circumstances of the time , an understandable one . |
| 8 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 9 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |