Example sentences of "[verb] at the time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect it can be seen that the most fatal blunder of the campaign was John Smith 's Budget — proclaimed at the time as ‘ an unparalleled act of honesty by any opposition party going into an election ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 5 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |
| 6 | Three years later he was appointed child care officer in Moray and Hairn under director Fred Edwards , dubbed at the time as the ‘ greenhouse ’ of social work development in Scotland . |
| 7 | During his week in Cairo he managed to lay his hands on a number of newly arrived jeeps , known at the time as Willy 's Bantams , and some 3-ton Ford trucks . |
| 8 | The system , known at the time as réduction François , was not accepted immediately in the Champagne community , despite being held in great esteem elsewhere and , ironically — which was most damaging of all to the Champagne industry — used to further the production of German sparkling sekt . |
| 9 | Apart from its own local trade in goods the Company covered some of its expenses by taking part in the carrying trade which flourished in the Indian Ocean , known at the time as the ‘ country trade ’ . |
| 10 | His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis . |
| 11 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The man who did the job , thereby impressing Bernard greatly , was Dai Jones , working at the time as a service engineer for domestic appliances . |
| 15 | And not content with an immensely complicated system of direct taxation , the Conservative government that came to power in 1970 gave us value added tax — heralded at the time as ‘ a simple tax ’ . |
| 16 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |