Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 2 | Motor cycling was also popular at Brooklands and the great John Cobb was synonymous with the circuit and his lap record of 230.80 kph ( 143.44 mph ) in a 24-litre Napier-Railton stood at the time of the circuit 's closure . |
| 3 | It is difficult now for many people to grasp , let along appreciate , the depth and strength of the feelings of loss , defeat , and outrage which mining communities felt at the time . |
| 4 | Annely Juda said at the time that she would have to be carried out of the building rather than leave . |
| 5 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 6 | But Mr Sharp predicted at the time that there would be continued violence before that brought results and is on record as believing an extra 700 officers were needed . |
| 7 | Eion Young wrote at the time that Lauda had become human , and thus vulnerable , that victory was no longer his consuming goal , and he is right : one comes out of an inferno , as Niki had , with a renewed appreciation of the value of life . |
| 8 | As Catherine Lacoste de Prado observed at the time , the Europeans must become far more aggressive in this area . |
| 9 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 10 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 11 | A VIDEO of the robbery showed the thief with a plaster cast on his hand — exactly like the one Nick Moore had at the time . |
| 12 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 13 | Russian press reports said at the time the CIS vessel suffered damage to its sail , periscope and bridge . |
| 14 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 15 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 16 | It was an office which Pierre Leclair held at the time . |
| 17 | Scott and James McCalman said at the time that it was a stone used for making charcoal after the following fashion . |
| 18 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |