Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 2 | While few are completed at the time of writing , previews of work in progress suggest some excellent material . |
| 3 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 4 | These prices are a guideline only and it is strongly advised that prices are checked at the time of booking . |
| 5 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 6 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 7 | The last atrocity had been claimed at the time by the Ulster Freedom Fighters with the explanation that it was in retaliation for a bomb which the Provisional IRA had exploded in an army bus in England seven days earlier , killing twelve men , women and children . |
| 8 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 9 | Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation . |
| 10 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 11 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 12 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 13 | The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas . |
| 14 | The draft constituted the party 's second political platform , the first having been adopted at the time of the foundation of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party ( the CPV 's forerunner ) in 1930 . |
| 15 | These correlations , however , apparently increase when emotionality ratings are made at the time of recall and may increase with the age of the memory ( Linton , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 17 | The highest price tag was £75,000 for an Elizabeth Frink horse , rumoured already to have been sold at the time of going to press . |
| 18 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 19 | The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution . |
| 20 | Suitable buildings are being considered but no final agreement has been reached at the time of going to press . |
| 21 | Sampras , meanwhile , was planning to talk with Tom 's twin brother , Tim , who has been working with Eliot Teltscher and , although nothing had been settled at the time of writing , Andrew Agassi was looking for a coach who could help him improve what he knows remains a fundamental weakness in his game — his serve . |
| 22 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 23 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 24 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 25 | The goods must actually have been stolen at the time of the offence . |
| 26 | A peace agreement signed at Kourou in French Guiana in June 1989 [ see p. 36811 ] had been denounced at the time by Bouterse and had never been implemented . |
| 27 | The commonest complaint in males is that of non-specific urethritis ( NSU ) , and this can be diagnosed at the time of the first visit in the majority of cases . |
| 28 | The age of the child on the date of departure must be given at the time of booking and confirmed on the Booking Form . |
| 29 | The direction must be given at the time of the refusal . |
| 30 | Once a CFE treaty was signed talks should begin to build on additional measures including ones to limit manpower in Europe ; a commitment would be given at the time of signature of the CFE treaty concerning the manpower levels of a unified Germany . |