Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] 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 | The rabbits were introduced in furtherance of sport and for their food value by the landowners of the time . |
| 5 | The sexual behaviour referred to turned out to be sexual misbehaviour by the standards of the time and on a widespread scale . |
| 6 | By the standards of the time , therefore , he was probably a generous employer . |
| 7 | At £100 per annum ( multiply by 40 for today 's value ) he was , by the standards of the time , very well off . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His speech , ‘ The friendship of the peoples of the USSR — a priceless asset ’ , was wholly conventional , even by the standards of the time . |
| 10 | The power output was indeed high by the standards of the time — 400 watts . |
| 11 | However , many townsmen were reasonably well-off by the standards of the time and were able to rebuild their modest dwellings . |