Example sentences of "seen [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , the present day is seen as a time when people 's sense of duty and responsibility is much weaker , so that they are less prepared to acknowledge obligation or to take responsibility for kin .
2 A great deal of importance is attached to planning and administration as it is seen as a time for problem-solving as opposed to task allocation .
3 The New Year holiday lasts for three days and is seen as a time of fresh starts , new resolutions and auspicious omens .
4 He said the Thatcher years would be seen as the time ‘ in which existing pensioners missed out on the prosperity afforded to the great majority in this country .
5 Anything less involves wasted potential and the limiting factors are seen as the time and energy of the carers .
6 Apparently no correlation is seen between the time of maximal release ( T m a x ) and the mucosal concentrations suggesting that although the release pattern of the different drugs has certainly influenced our results , this influence should not be overestimated .
7 The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes .
8 Painstakingly , with meticulous attention to detail , Tethlis rebuilt the Elf forces to a strength not seen since the time of Aenarion .
9 Such information implies a distance of 16 thousand million light years and that the galaxy is seen at a time 83% of the way back to the Big Bang .
10 He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) .
11 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
12 But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind .
13 This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves .
14 A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time .
15 It has , of course , been a continuous feature of Britain 's involvement in Europe that each new step , seen at the time as ‘ technical ’ , ‘ consequential ’ , ‘ of no real account ’ , is later declared to be the point at which the pass was sold .
16 Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred .
17 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 .
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