Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although her appointments were made with an eye to preserving party unity as well as recognizing ability , Thatcherites — often young and lacking ministerial experience — were not obvious candidates for promotion at the time . |
| 2 | All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ . |
| 3 | If a case is transferred , any directions in force at the time of transfer will continue to apply unless and until varied by the receiving court ( FPCR , r14(11) ; FPR , r4.14(9) ) . |
| 4 | As we have seen , there were already deep religious tensions in society at the time of the Restoration , between separatists who wanted toleration , Presbyterians and moderate Anglicans who wanted a comprehensive Church settlement but no toleration , and hard-line Anglicans who wanted the re-establishment of the Church on their own lines with no concessions to either Presbyterians or separatists . |
| 5 | One can hardly blame them , they had too many urgent and pressing matters on hand at the time to worry about such things . |
| 6 | Much of each judgment was taken up with painstaking reviews of the historical and social context of the advertisement 's publication , with the syntactical features of the sentence and its relationship to the rest of the advertisement , and with the undeniable fact that indeed there was considerable ‘ evidence ’ about the matters at hand at the time of the advertisement 's publication . |
| 7 | Three of the principal shareholders were already producing films for release at the time of Dustin 's signing , and unfortunately proving that artistic liberty was not synonymous with artistic quality . |
| 8 | DESPITE his criticisms , among those who predicted the outcome of the election with astonishing accuracy ( and subject to hoots of disbelief at the time ) was Sir Tim . |
| 9 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 10 | Children under 2 years of age at the time of return travel go free , but must travel on an adult 's lap unless there is a free seat available . |
| 11 | LOW CHILD PRICES apply to children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel , when sharing a room with 2 adults ( See page 5 ) . |
| 12 | No deposit is payable for infants under 2 years of age at the time of return travel . |
| 13 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 14 | Only in exceptional circumstances will the faculty offer places to applicants who will be less than seventeen and a half years of age at the time of commencing their studies . |
| 15 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 16 | The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time . |
| 17 | Mr Seymour told the court that the antiquated detonators in use at the time of Bellgrove were not considered adequate for use on the modern railway . |
| 18 | Having discovered that if he took cinchona or Peruvian bark , from which quinine is derived , he developed the symptoms and signs of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , and knowing that cinchona was an effective treatment for malaria , Hahnemann went on to experiment with other substances in use at the time to see what symptoms and signs they would produce . |
| 19 | There was one exceptional year that proved the rule : in 1980 , the economic recession so emptied British industry 's order books that firms were able , and keen , to deliver faster than anticipated with embarrassing consequences for the accounting officers in post at the time . |
| 20 | The other generating company , PowerGen , has been burning orimulsion on an experimental basis under less strict control regulations in force at the time of licensing . |
| 21 | The JDS has to apply the regulations in place at the time of the alleged offence , Institute professional conduct director Brian Harris said . |
| 22 | Again , if like Peter , Jesus was likening conditions on earth at the time of His promised return and judgment to an event which was only myth or legend then the ‘ blessed hope ’ would be reduced to ‘ no hope ’ . |
| 23 | A key aspect of the methodology used to estimate population trends was the assumption that policies in place at the time of the analysis would continue . |
| 24 | Prima facie these are the rules in force at the time when he became a member . |
| 25 | Purely procedural rules may be binding by reference to the rules in force at the time when the procedure is applied . |
| 26 | The particular set of values that comes to be enshrined in a constitution or code reflects the preferences of the groups in power at the time of their drawing up . |
| 27 | The 1985 study reports no examples of parents teaching their children at home under the guidance of a teacher ; no activity packs for use at the time of the children 's first admission to school ; no parents helping in the classroom with music , and no home-school liaison assistants or secondary/junior/infant liaison teachers . |
| 28 | A large number of studies have been conducted with particular reference to eyewitness testimony in an attempt to decide what the effects of high levels of arousal at the time of a crime are likely to be on the testimony of a victim or witness . |
| 29 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 30 | If you live outside reasonable travelling distance of the campus , you will have been sent details concerning accommodation at the time of confirmation of your place at the University . |