Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 2 | In one Sir Peter Middleton , the department 's top civil servant at the time , said it ‘ would be unreasonable ’ for Mr Lamont to pay all of the £23,000 bill he faced last April . |
| 3 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 4 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 5 | ( a ) Questions surfaced about the tapping of the telephones of the Canadian High Commission at the time of the proposed repatriation of the Canadian Constitution . |
| 6 | But nowhere does the Trust help me much with the only truly interesting questions about Cragside : — what was the first Lord Armstrong 's annual income ? — from what was it derived ? — what was the annual average industrial wage at the time ? — how much did he pay his gardeners and his tweeny maids ? — what kind of employer was he to his workforce ? |
| 7 | What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ? |
| 8 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 9 | One story that surfaced late in 1982 told of a bold Iraqi initiative at the time . |
| 10 | Exploratory analysis identified nine other risk factors : prior slow healing was associated with decreased healing rates at two , four , and eight weeks but the remainder — multiple ulcers , a large ulcer , prior complications , unemployment divorce , excess dietary energy intake in relation to physical activity , abstention from wine , and a deformed duodenal bulb at the time of healing — had less prolonged effects . |
| 11 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 12 | His only surviving issue at the time of his death was Joan , his daughter by his first wife , who was the wife of Eon la Zouche . |
| 13 | In Sheffield ( Britain 's fourth largest city ) the only gay facility at the time was an upstairs bar in a pub called The King William . |
| 14 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 15 | Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time . |
| 16 | of low intelligence or a particular emotional state at the time will not be liable . |
| 17 | ‘ His , er , surcoat has both the lions of England and the lilies of France because we were laying claim to the disputed French throne at the time . |
| 18 | Bessie was at a strict Jewish school at the time of her début and was expelled publicly for appearing in the theatre . |
| 19 | Living standards for most of the population were lower in India than in western Europe and silver bullion , which was the nearest thing to a common international currency at the time , had a higher purchasing power in India than in Europe , so that anything made by people who were paid European wages would be expensive in terms of silver in India . |
| 20 | The effect diminishes if there is irrelevant articulatory activity at the time , this raises the possibility that there may be pre-output stores as well as post-input stores , almost literally memory in the fingers . |
| 21 | The other great catchphrase at the time was ‘ swingin' , dodgy ’ made famous by comic Norman Vaughan the host of Sunday night 's Palladium Show . |
| 22 | Miss Shearer , who was assistant head waitress at the time , said she had earlier been sworn at by Mr Maguire . |
| 23 | Miss Shearer , assistant head waitress at the time , said Mr Maguire swore at her . |
| 24 | By the early nineteenth century , the term ‘ Boroughmonger ’ , at any rate in Scotland , had come to mean anyone who was anti-reform , and indeed the whole Tory party at the time were branded as Boroughmongers by the radical reformers . |
| 25 | The worst offender in this was Charles Temple , who was senior Northern Resident at the time of Lugard 's return . |
| 26 | If employees are provided with detailed information packs on the proposed new area at the time of the announcement this can go a long way to answering some of their questions and thus reducing anxiety . |