Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the time [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 2 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 3 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 4 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 5 | Catches were well documented at the time and proceeds from sales were distributed to the poor of Doncaster . |
| 6 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |