Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [art] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 2 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 3 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 4 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 5 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 6 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 7 | About 80% had always had an off-farm job and of the others most had started at a time of extra financial pressure on the farm , for example low prices for produce , loss due to weather or stock health problems . |
| 8 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |