Example sentences of "[Wh det] prevailed at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subscribed to a sort of education-orientated noblesse oblige which prevailed at the time , and would organize plays , and patronize enthusiastically any local concert party or visiting production , especially of Shakespeare ; and she invited me to her poetry readings , where members of the circle read poems on a prepared subject , in turn . |
| 2 | She shakes her head at the memory of the anti-commercial ‘ hardcore ’ aesthetic which prevailed at the time . |
| 3 | Even such a jaundiced eye as that of the Austrian Ambassador , accustomed to the rigid etiquette which prevailed at Vienna , was charmed . |
| 4 | These strategies included the formation of complex households , containing several nuclear family units , as a response to the severe economic pressures which prevailed at that time ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 77–8 ) . |
| 5 | When we look at circumstances in the past , and see the patterns of support between kin which prevailed at any given point , we are looking at situations very different from our own in important and relevant ways . |
| 6 | The kitchen reminded her strongly of Bewick , lofty and castle-like , except that the order which prevailed at Bewick had no chance here . |