Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took so much stick for those at the time from the diehard ‘ Blues Mac ’ fans . |
| 2 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 3 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 4 | Their campaign reached its height in the winter of 1861–62 at a time when the anxieties of both reactionary and liberally inclined sections of the nobility were intense . |
| 5 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 6 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 7 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 8 | Expulsion of the women 's group would mean a significant drop in the total membership of 500,000 at a time when numbers joining are declining . |
| 9 | The island and its neighbour Warbah have been claimed by Iraq in the past and may well have been among Iraq 's objectives in mounting the invasion a year earlier , although there was no strong evidence of this at the time . |
| 10 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 11 | The term ‘ schoolgirl mother ’ strictly refers to those under the age of 16 at the time of conception . |
| 12 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 13 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 14 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 15 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 16 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
| 17 | Ari tried to wriggle away from him a little , somehow annoyed he could say a thing like that at a time like this . |
| 18 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 19 | Right , erm , did we not have a fair amount of discussion about this at the time , before |
| 20 | Mr Vasarhelyi fled the country in 1956 at the time of the Hungarian Revolution . |
| 21 | Erm you know , th th th this er er it was a medium term horizon on this at the time . |
| 22 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 23 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 24 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |