Example sentences of "write at the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 3 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 4 | In fact , this crisis directly entered the form , as a crisis of the principles underlying the formation , in Godwin 's two ( radically different endings to Things as They Are , of which the latter , written at the time of greatest danger , marks the transition to a new and more subjective form . |
| 5 | If opinions are what you seek , you are probably better looking a source written at the time of the issue you have chosen by a person of sound mind . |
| 6 | Writing at the time of de-Stalinization in Russia , when the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party was in session , and Stalin 's body was evicted from the Mausoleum , Isaac Deutscher used the words ‘ The official , heavily edited and misleading reports of the Congress … ’ . |
| 7 | Sherlock wrote at the time of the calling of the Convention , " there are no Contentions so fierce as those about Religion … |