Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 2 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 3 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 4 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 5 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 6 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 7 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 8 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 9 | He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time . |
| 10 | as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there . |
| 11 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 12 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 13 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 16 | The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations . |
| 17 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 18 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 19 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 21 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 22 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |