Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 3 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 4 | Lord Herschell was angered by this idea and , says Professor Heuston , ‘ the High Court judges at that time , many of whom were Halsbury 's own appointments , were not on the whole notable for progressive views on social or industrial matters . ’ |
| 5 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 6 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |
| 7 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
| 8 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 9 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 10 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 11 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 12 | Most stony meteorites formed at that time as did the irons , which had already solidified from cores or pools of molten metal that lay within their small parent bodies . |
| 13 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 14 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 15 | Do you know how much flowers cost at this time of the year ? |
| 16 | Many of those who take Christmas jobs in retail stores are , it was suggested , married women who are explicitly seeking a short-term job to help meet the extra expenses incurred at that time of the year . |
| 17 | This process is repeated each time the highest-level index existing at that time requires a third or fourth track to be added . |
| 18 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 19 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 20 | Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ . |
| 21 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 22 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 23 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 24 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that many fish breed at this time , although cooler , fresh water is part of the trigger . |
| 26 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 27 | A ‘ Social and Propaganda Committee ’ was formed — probably to good effect , for some of the Club 's present members joined at this time , either as Artisans or Juniors . |
| 28 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |
| 29 | The legal system existing at any time is explained as functional for the development of the productive forces at that time , or ( in another version ) for the relations of production at that time . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've 27 turned out at home and I could bring any of them in for all weather racing at any time . |