Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer we had serious problems , we had a report on children homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort into fostering y'know and the children homes y'know need , as Councillor would y'know will , they did a very good job actually representing at the time . |
| 2 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 3 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 4 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 5 | It was bold because it conflicted with theories generally accepted at the time , theories that included the assumption that electromagnetic systems ( magnets , charged bodies , current-carrying conductors , etc. ) act upon each other instantaneously across empty space and that electromagnetic effects can be propagated at a finite velocity only through material substances . |
| 6 | Despite these landmark judgments and the abolition of the earnings rule in 1989 ( see below ) , the five-year differential in state pension age still remains at the time of writing . |
| 7 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 8 | The price was one of the highest Modigliani ever received at the time . |
| 9 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 10 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 11 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 12 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 13 | The net profit margin is lower than forecast due to the increase in interest rates and certain items of expenditure not anticipated at the time of the forecast . |
| 14 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |