Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 2 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 3 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 4 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 5 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 6 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 7 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 8 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 9 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 10 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 11 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 12 | Whether this lesion should be biopsied percutaneously at the time of initial imaging remains controversial . |
| 13 | ‘ They are put forward at a time when industry uncertainty about the result of the current energy policy debate is starting to affect confidence in future investment offshore and halfway through a licensing round when industry application have already been made , ’ a statement said . |
| 14 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 15 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 16 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 17 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 18 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 19 | some of them being throttled round at the time . |
| 20 | Four members of the press were allowed in at a time . |
| 21 | Once again , the two kings were stranded together at a time when the kingdom of Sicily was at a particularly explosive juncture in its long and turbulent history . |
| 22 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 24 | The genre of apocalyptic historical prophecy reached its apotheosis in the writings of Oswald Spengler , whose The Decline of the West had been published coincidentally at the time of Germany 's military defeat . |
| 25 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 26 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 27 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 28 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 29 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 30 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |