Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only see such decisions , though , against the social and political conditions of the time when such a choice was made , and in the light of contemporary warfare and weaponry . |
| 2 | The series encapsulated many of the important social and political issues of the time and therefore was not just an academic analysis . |
| 3 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 4 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 5 | Beneath an apparent calm on the campuses were all the unresolved and unaddressed issues of the time . |
| 6 | It has been a fundamental aim of this study to argue that the images of working-class youth , and their means of construction were inextricably bound up with the political , economic , social , and cultural issues of the time . |
| 7 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 8 | No one described more graphically the appearance or recorded more faithfully the looks and the talk of the royal personages and major politicians of the time . |
| 9 | War Diaries , situation reports and other records of the time vividly convey the chaos prevailing throughout the area in those days immediately following the end of the war , as British units encountered this mass of fugitives fleeing , blocking roads or -seeking to surrender , mixed in with the Tito 's partisans and in eastern Carinthia with the advancing Bulgarians of Tolbukhin 's 3rd Ukrainian Front . |
| 10 | By the mid-1930s his work was regularly appearing in all the society magazines as well as in Harper 's Bazaar ( then under the creative art editorship of AY McPeake ) , in the company of his avant-garde contemporaries such as Rose Pulham , Winifred Casson and Barbara Ker-Seymer and other innovators of the time . |
| 11 | They are idealizations which serve to ‘ cover and to evade the actual and bitter contradictions of the time ’ ( Williams , 1973 , p. 45 ) . |