Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 2 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 3 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 4 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 5 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 6 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 7 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 8 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 9 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 10 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 11 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 12 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 13 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 14 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 15 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 16 | The troubled DIY group has been in talks with its bankers arranging a refinancing of the £553million loans taken out at the time of the management buy-out . |
| 17 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 18 | The genre of apocalyptic historical prophecy reached its apotheosis in the writings of Oswald Spengler , whose The Decline of the West had been published coincidentally at the time of Germany 's military defeat . |
| 19 | Whether this lesion should be biopsied percutaneously at the time of initial imaging remains controversial . |