Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more sensitive approach requires that scientific innovations be judged against the background of prevailing knowledge at the time they were announced . |
| 2 | Obviously , there was a quantum leap of some sort in the development of Minoan culture at the time when the temples were built , just as there was a quantum leap when the towns were built . |
| 3 | The sampling of events in these two studies was not completely random ( see for comparison Brewer , 1988 ) , nonetheless the studies do suggest that although emotionally arousing circumstances can sometimes be well remembered even after very considerable delays ( c.f. Wagenaar & Groeneweg , 1990 ) it seems unlikely that actual feelings of emotional arousal at the time are either necessary or sufficient to cause dramatically enhanced memory . |
| 4 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 5 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 6 | The failure of the programme of 1918 stemmed above all from the lack of real agreement at the time ; despite the negotiations , the coalition 's electoral manifesto and campaign of 1918 went little further than Lloyd George 's letter to Bonar Law . |
| 7 | Those who were with him on the tour of Dark Summer at the time were equally astounded . |
| 8 | Indeed , even on the political level , the German press and public opinion were much preoccupied with the question of national sovereignty at the time of unification . |
| 9 | It is suggested that she did not appreciate the legal position , although she was in receipt of legal advice at the time . |
| 10 | A distinctive feature of the Downs are the coombes or dry valleys formed through erosion by water derived from the thawing of frozen land at the time of the last Ice Age . |
| 11 | The Poor Law authorities took ‘ repeaters ’ and from 1927 had sweeping powers to detain girls who were classified as mentally defective and who were in receipt of poor relief at the time of their child 's birth . |
| 12 | He mentioned the possibility of sacramental confession at the time of Lent . |
| 13 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 14 | The First Band itself may have seemed of small significance at the time compared to parliament 's apparently much more crucial decision one week after it was signed to go ahead with the marriage negotiations . |
| 15 | His Irish experiences led his lively imagination well outside the normal range of military thinking at the time . |
| 16 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 17 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 18 | However , in the absence of such an exclusion , it might be possible to show that the failure was due to a latent defect present in the car at the time of delivery ( particularly possible in the area of negligent design ) and this could then be the basis for a claim that there was a breach of the warranty of merchantable quality at the time of delivery . |
| 19 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 20 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
| 21 | The scale of Britain 's overseas government expenditure was a source of intense debate at the time , and has remained a source of criticism of the Attlee government 's policies . |