Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 2 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 3 | What were at the time perceived as the faults of these novels can in retrospect be read as indications of the inadequacy of contemporary narrative models to Brooke-Rose 's needs as a writer . |
| 4 | In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass . |
| 5 | Nichols encountered difficulties in staging a play on what was at the time , circa 1967 , a difficult and sensitive subject although the difficulties were compounded by the frank dialogue . |