Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Daedalus himself , he had been busy too at the time inventing the Greek alphabet in Cumae , on the other side of the peninsula . |
| 2 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 3 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |
| 4 | ‘ Had I been big enough at the time , I would have beaten his ass but I was n't . |
| 5 | It need have been irrelevant only at the time the edition of the digesta was made , which according to Schulz was in the late third century . |
| 6 | ‘ You were willing enough at the time . |
| 7 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 8 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , he or she will use whatever is available locally at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ It was bad enough at the time . |