Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 2 | The Department may make basic funeral arrangements for anyone who is a client at the time of death if there is no other responsible person to make the arrangements or insufficient personal funds to provide for a funeral . |
| 3 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 4 | If what was a secret at the time that the contract was entered into subsequently becomes public knowledge then it would be unrealistic if the court were simply to examine the question of reasonableness at the time when the contract was entered . |
| 5 | There was a drought at the time , and the crowd declared that " God would not suffer it to rain till Bulcamp Hell was pulled down " . |
| 6 | She was a child at the time . |
| 7 | A snapshot of the Hitler years Sixty years after the Nazis came to power , David Jackson Young talks to a woman who was a child at the time of the Third Reich |
| 8 | There was a fighter at the time called Joe ‘ Kid ’ Bassey and people used to think we were related . |
| 9 | The letters and casts are now in the National Museum of American Art , Smithsonian Institution , Washington , where Wunder was a Director at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it was a woman at the time . |
| 11 | And he was a student at the time and he had n't got a lot of money and he took what was it she said ? |
| 12 | Bedworth was a schoolboy at the time . |
| 13 | I was probably what you 'd say was a hippy at the time , y'know … |
| 14 | A careful user and comparer of sources , he often draws attention to discrepancies between them , and sometimes criticises their reliability , noting , for example , that Cædwalla of Wessex 's confirmation of a Glastonbury grant was signed with a cross although he was a pagan at the time . |
| 15 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |