Example sentences of "britain at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he was barely known in Britain at the time , the review of the recording in the March 1947 issue of Gramophone makes no mention of Karajan himself , let alone any gratuitous remarks of the crash of boots and jingle of spurs variety . |
| 2 | While this change was not the immediate source of the popular jingoism that swept the lower middle classes in Britain at the time of the Boer War , or later in all the Great Powers in 1914 , nonetheless popular nationalism and imperialism were becoming factors in national politics . |
| 3 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 4 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 5 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 6 | No similar conditions existed in Britain at the time of this study . |
| 7 | Such patterns have been noted , with considerable variation , in Latin America , Africa , India , rural North America and Britain at the time of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Figure 2.8 shows the numbers of men and women in Great Britain at the time of the 1981 Census who were employed in the various OPCS social classes or out of employment . |