Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 2 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 3 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 4 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 5 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 6 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 7 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 8 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 9 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 10 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 11 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 12 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 13 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 14 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 15 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 16 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 17 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 18 | The troubled DIY group has been in talks with its bankers arranging a refinancing of the £553million loans taken out at the time of the management buy-out . |
| 19 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 20 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 21 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 22 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |