Example sentences of "[conj] at the time [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 2 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |
| 3 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 4 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 5 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 6 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 7 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 8 | It is a defence for a person charged with ‘ Being in Charge ’ to prove that at the time he is alleged to have committed the offence the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving the vehicle whilst the proportion of alcohol in his breath , blood or urine remained likely to exceed the prescribed limit ; but in determining whether there was such a likelihood the court may disregard any injury to him and any damage to the vehicle . |
| 9 | They built a separate development area , and Wilkinson reports that at the time he was writing his book three major new projects were being developed within it , but as none had reached completion there is no data about the effects of this new pattern of introducing new technology in that company . |
| 10 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 11 | It was no secret that at the time you were looking for John Alaysi perhaps to replace Bootsen next season . |
| 12 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 13 | It was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1841 and at the time it was acclaimed as an engineering masterpiece . |
| 14 | And at the time I was desperately shocked by it , as you always are by bad notices — you always remember the bad ones and never the good . |
| 15 | ‘ They turned Reading round after that debacle in '88 , and at the time I was very surprised that Vince did n't accept the new contract because it 's become such a prestigious event . |
| 16 | She believed in fat babies and at the time I was born , during the war , little was known about nutrition or cholesterol , nor that heart attacks were preventable . |
| 17 | There was a ‘ For Sale ’ sign outside , and at the time I was beginning to contemplate leaving Baldersdale — half of me wanted a more suitable place and the other half was telling me to stop at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | ( Perhaps it was a little strange , Alice thought later , but at the time she was not surprised . ) |
| 19 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 20 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 21 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 22 | I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
| 24 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 25 | But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them . |
| 26 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 27 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
| 28 | ‘ I know that now — but at the time I was simply too young to cope with her malice . |
| 29 | But at the time you were heartbroken when David left you . |
| 30 | But at the time it 's really , really serious . |