Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 2 | I did a little research at the time of the East German business . |
| 3 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 4 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 5 | There was some hope at the time of the Maastricht negotiations that the centralising tendencies of the European Community would be checked by the ‘ principle of subsidiarity ’ . |
| 6 | The magnetism is built into the basalt when it is first formed , and it records the nature of the Earth 's magnetic field at the time of formation . |
| 7 | There also appeared to be less dissension on state aid and subsidies , a subject given added poignancy by the recent revelations about the UK Government 's ‘ sweeteners ’ to British Aerospace at the time of the takeover of Rover . |
| 8 | Following the Commission 's order of June 28 , 1990 , that the £42,900,000 in " sweeteners " paid to British Aerospace at the time of its purchase of the Rover motor group should be repaid , the UK government announced that it was suing British Aerospace for the return of the money , and Rover for another £1,500,000 [ see pp. 37582-83 ] . |
| 9 | Their name signified ‘ sons of Zadok ’ , the high priest at the time of David who was thought to be a descendant of the younger son of Aaron . |
| 10 | The Sadducees claimed direct descent from Zadok who was the High Priest at the time of King Solomon ( 1 Kings 2:35 ) . |
| 11 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 12 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 13 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was not even Bishop of the Cornish See at the time of his imprisonment . |
| 16 | By the time of local elections , it was apparent the SDP of ‘ claret and chips ’ mould-breaking fame at the time of the Limehouse Declaration in 1981 was disintegrating . |
| 17 | It will not always be possible therefore to guarantee availability for a specific joining point on the FREELINK service , nor can the FREELINK service be available to clients who have not made a reservation for this service at the time of booking . |
| 18 | In 1940 , there were about 400000 km 2 of forest in Central America and this was reduced to about half by 1987 , compared with perhaps 500000km 2 standing at the time of the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century , when there was a large population : the Mayas with shifting cultivation and intensive terraced agriculture . |
| 19 | The context of these submissions is the undertaking given by British Steel at the time of privatisation that it would consider commercial offers for the steel mill facilities if it no longer had a use for them . |
| 20 | Still on the subject of coaches , the national coaches from the leading powers will congregate in Hong Kong later this month at the time of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 21 | ( 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 . |
| 22 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 23 | on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ? |
| 24 | He said Fawcett had been smoking cannabis at the time of the offence . |
| 25 | The school was one of those selected to take part in the county 's TVEI pilot scheme , but neither the art nor music department were involved in work on this project at the time of the research . |
| 26 | such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury |
| 27 | It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented . |
| 28 | This then was the situation facing the social worker at the time of referral , with Joan at breaking point , and Stanley unaware of the difficulties . |
| 29 | Conversely , a foreign national resident abroad would find that the transaction with him was within the Act if , but only if , he was physically present in this country at the time of the transaction . |
| 30 | 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 . |