Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 2 | In one Sir Peter Middleton , the department 's top civil servant at the time , said it ‘ would be unreasonable ’ for Mr Lamont to pay all of the £23,000 bill he faced last April . |
| 3 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 4 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 5 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 6 | Secondly , an elder may display little verbal consciousness at the time of the assessment , but from other information available this may be identified as linked to some crisis , such as bereavement or illness , or a temporary condition such as side-effects of medication . |
| 7 | There had been little sign of such popular sentiment at the time of the earlier enclosure — the attitude of John Rous can not be matched elsewhere . |
| 8 | ( a ) Questions surfaced about the tapping of the telephones of the Canadian High Commission at the time of the proposed repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 9 | Nothing of this was to be found in mainstream pre-conciliar Roman ecclesiology ( though it is to be found in 1950s books representative of the ‘ new theology ’ by scholars like de Lubac and Congar , writers under much official suspicion at the time ) . |
| 10 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 11 | But nowhere does the Trust help me much with the only truly interesting questions about Cragside : — what was the first Lord Armstrong 's annual income ? — from what was it derived ? — what was the annual average industrial wage at the time ? — how much did he pay his gardeners and his tweeny maids ? — what kind of employer was he to his workforce ? |
| 12 | What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ? |
| 13 | This outlook emboldened Iran to repudiate the military provisions of the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty at the time it abrogated Iranian membership in CENTO . |
| 14 | Twelve of these patients were receiving corticosteroid treatment and three elemental diet at the time of surgery . |
| 15 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 16 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
| 17 | One story that surfaced late in 1982 told of a bold Iraqi initiative at the time . |
| 18 | Exploratory analysis identified nine other risk factors : prior slow healing was associated with decreased healing rates at two , four , and eight weeks but the remainder — multiple ulcers , a large ulcer , prior complications , unemployment divorce , excess dietary energy intake in relation to physical activity , abstention from wine , and a deformed duodenal bulb at the time of healing — had less prolonged effects . |
| 19 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 20 | His only surviving issue at the time of his death was Joan , his daughter by his first wife , who was the wife of Eon la Zouche . |
| 21 | One British reaction at the time to the greening of the Kremlin shows quite starkly how much political perceptions have changed in the short space since the autumn of 1988 . |
| 22 | In Sheffield ( Britain 's fourth largest city ) the only gay facility at the time was an upstairs bar in a pub called The King William . |
| 23 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 24 | Their ideas were at least 100 years old ’ , complained one senior German at the time . |
| 25 | Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time . |
| 26 | of low intelligence or a particular emotional state at the time will not be liable . |
| 27 | ‘ His , er , surcoat has both the lions of England and the lilies of France because we were laying claim to the disputed French throne at the time . |
| 28 | So leaving the Zande again and moving back to our own cultural tradition at the time of St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) , we find the public orators and professors of late antiquity understandably fearful lest their memories might be stolen by witches . |
| 29 | The reference to a proposed parachute operation is strange , because there is no evidence that Stirling was planning any such thing at the time , yet the correspondence is dated 30 and 31 December 1941 , when Stirling was in the desert . |
| 30 | Bessie was at a strict Jewish school at the time of her début and was expelled publicly for appearing in the theatre . |