Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 2 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |
| 3 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 4 | Reading and eating were always metaphorically linked at the time . |
| 5 | With this sort of hierarchical team , the possibility of idiosyncratic judgements is minimized , and with the control of the recording in the supervisors ' hands , errors are more readily noted at the time they occur and can be corrected or allowed for in the subsequent analysis . |
| 6 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 7 | He said what he most probably felt at the time , which was the heat of the moment . |
| 8 | This collection , often inadequately reviewed at the time , but now seen as the heart of his poetic achievement , contains poems described by Hardy himself as ‘ possibly among the best I have written ’ . |
| 9 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
| 10 | They are most readily shown at the times when the young are hatching and again when they are fledging . |
| 11 | It is important to hold on to our hats and remember that it was quite well reviewed at the time . |
| 12 | Until that late date , the Cecils successfully opposed any move to enclose the fields , for reasons which were never fully disclosed at the time . |