Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 2 | Hoccleve is distressed by the corruptions of the time ( which recur in the main work as well as here ) . |
| 3 | Whatever its effect on scabies , the unction certainly had a healing , if not curative , effect on the morbus gallicus and was dispensed not only by the physicians of the time but also by ‘ butchers , sow-gelders , farriers , and itinerant mountebanks ’ . |
| 4 | It is of interest that the altar table was made by the minister of the time . |
| 5 | But he insisted the decision was endorsed by the Cabinet of the time . |
| 6 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 7 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 8 | We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices . |
| 9 | The rabbits were introduced in furtherance of sport and for their food value by the landowners of the time . |
| 10 | The sexual behaviour referred to turned out to be sexual misbehaviour by the standards of the time and on a widespread scale . |
| 11 | By the standards of the time , therefore , he was probably a generous employer . |
| 12 | At £100 per annum ( multiply by 40 for today 's value ) he was , by the standards of the time , very well off . |
| 13 | Leicester was no Paradise Restored : its flat site led to difficult drainage problems and mortality was high even by the standards of the time , but there was nothing remotely resembling the horrors of Nottingham . |
| 14 | His speech , ‘ The friendship of the peoples of the USSR — a priceless asset ’ , was wholly conventional , even by the standards of the time . |
| 15 | The power output was indeed high by the standards of the time — 400 watts . |
| 16 | However , many townsmen were reasonably well-off by the standards of the time and were able to rebuild their modest dwellings . |
| 17 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |