Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 2 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 3 | Unastounding today , his openness shocked and perplexed the establishment and anti-drug abuse authorities at the time , especially in the panic-stricken aftermath of Sharon Tate and other horrendous drug-related deaths of that time , including Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison . |
| 4 | Reports from human rights organizations at the time indicate systematic abuse of prisoners , especially of political prisoners . |
| 5 | The car , a Rover , was carrying false number plates at the time of the accident but was later identified by police as having been stolen from Roman Road , Colchester , on March 8 . |
| 6 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 7 | The green speckled Spartan basalt used at Knossos came from the south Peloponnese ; a store-room in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth held a supply of Spartan basalt blocks at the time of the temple 's abandonment in 1380 BC . |
| 8 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |