Example sentences of "[prep] britain at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he was barely known in Britain at the time , the review of the recording in the March 1947 issue of Gramophone makes no mention of Karajan himself , let alone any gratuitous remarks of the crash of boots and jingle of spurs variety . |
| 2 | While this change was not the immediate source of the popular jingoism that swept the lower middle classes in Britain at the time of the Boer War , or later in all the Great Powers in 1914 , nonetheless popular nationalism and imperialism were becoming factors in national politics . |
| 3 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 4 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 5 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 6 | No similar conditions existed in Britain at the time of this study . |
| 7 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 8 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |