Example sentences of "widely [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 2 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
| 3 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 4 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 5 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 6 | Although his actions were widely condemned at the time and subsequently , it is a more open question whether his objectives were so much at odds with those of his government . |
| 7 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 8 | A very scholarly and erudite work , widely acclaimed at the time but since much maligned . |
| 9 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |
| 10 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |