Example sentences of "be know at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 2 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 3 | November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married . |
| 4 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 5 | Its eponym , the harpist Ludovico , is believed to have produces falsas ( chromatic ‘ wrong notes ’ ) by pressing a finger against a string to shorten its sounding length — King uses instead a type of double harp that was known at that time — and this device is still used by folk harpists in South America . |