Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 2 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 3 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 4 | He decided to feature John , who was out of a job at the time . |
| 5 | If Brian and John were engaged in a get-away from the scene of a crime at the time of the accident , John could also raise the defence of ex turpi causa ( illegality ) to the action . |
| 6 | It was a bit of a catch-phrase at the time . |
| 7 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |
| 8 | The TVX system is effectively a camera-on-a-chip : camera and lens are integrated onto one chip about the size of a postage stamp , and it is designed to provide visual verification of the cause of an alarm at the time of an incident , and provide a method to distinguish actual emergencies from false alarms . |
| 9 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 10 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 11 | This includes any local authority which is providing accommodation for a child at the time an application is made and anyone caring for the child when proceedings are commenced . |
| 12 | His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up . |
| 13 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 14 | The usual reward for a dedication at the time , according to Korshin , was about £10 , the amount Chesterfield gave Johnson on the proposals for his dictionary . |
| 15 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 16 | And as a mother at the time di do you remember having problems getting food and things during the War ? |
| 17 | Although the Office describes her as a recluse at the time of her cure , there is a discrepancy here between the date at which she was enclosed ( 1348 ) and the fact that several years elapsed between the cure and the relapse of her illness when Rolle died , since many manuscripts attest to Rolle 's death in 1348 . |
| 18 | ‘ It was seen as a watershed at the time , ’ says William Oddie . |
| 19 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 20 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 21 | The word Freedom was being bandied about a lot at the time and meant many different things . |
| 22 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 23 | Katie , from Hawley , Hants , had been staying with a pal at the time of her murder after a row with her parents two weeks earlier . |
| 24 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 25 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 26 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 28 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 29 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 30 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |