Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the time [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 2 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 3 | It was felt at the time that regional disparities would inhibit commitment by member states to such integration . |
| 4 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 5 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 6 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 7 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 8 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |