Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would the position be if there was an exceptionally strong gale blowing at the time of the original road accident ? |
| 2 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 3 | I seem to remember him doing some inane arse wiggling at the time . |
| 4 | However , major defects existing at the time of the sale are another matter . |
| 5 | There was a decline in the island s population in the mid-1850s associated with many people emigrating at the time of the oidium disease of the vines . |
| 6 | ‘ The majority of us , who would not extend the offence of rape to married couples cohabiting at the time of the act of sexual intercourse , believe that rape can not be considered in the abstract as merely ‘ sexual intercourse without consent ’ . |
| 7 | If the C M I does n't lead to this kind of balance then it can have this sort of effect and get rapidly fatal tuberculosis occurring at the time of the primary infection . |
| 8 | ‘ We vested at the agricultural prices pertaining at the time — but now this is prime building land . ’ |
| 9 | He appears to have had one son and one daughter living at the time of his death , which occurred in Cambridge 7 December 1720 . |
| 10 | Where the business association takes the form of a partnership , a writ or originating summons can be served on any one or more of the partners ; at the principal place of business of the partnership within the jurisdiction on any person having at the time of service the control or management of the partnership business there ; or by sending a copy of the document by post to the firm at that principal place of business . |
| 11 | When BP made its disastrous privatisation offering at the time of the crash , its profit forecast for the year ending 31 December , 1987 , computed in accordance with UK Gaap , was £1.45bn whereas its forecast based on US Gaap was 25 per cent lower at £1.1bn . |
| 12 | The court may annul a bankruptcy order if at any time it appears to the court that the order ought not to have been made ( on any grounds existing at the time the order was made ) or the debts and expenses of the bankruptcy have all been either paid or secured to the satisfaction of the court since the making of the order ( s 282(1) ) . |
| 13 | A newspaper obituary mentioned four children living at the time of his death . |