Example sentences of "at [art] time as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 4 | Frederica saw this observation at the time as a mark of signal failure of insight . |
| 5 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 6 | The man who did the job , thereby impressing Bernard greatly , was Dai Jones , working at the time as a service engineer for domestic appliances . |
| 7 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 8 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 9 | ‘ True , ’ said Julia , ‘ but in Palestine the British army does not burn villages , hang hostages and leave their bodies in village squares for days at a time as a warning , whatever horror they feel at things like the bombing of the King David Hotel and the murders of those sergeants . |