Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 2 | More recently he was criticized for failing to exploit possibilities created by the improvement in church-state relations at the time of the Russian Orthodox millennium in 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , although this was partly excused by commentators on the grounds of his serious ill health . |
| 3 | You know if if they were if they were in erm in full-time education at the time . |
| 4 | Indeed , many of the indigenous plants and remedies , such as quinine , which were brought back to Europe by the conquistadores , contributed to the fundamental changes taking place in European medicine at the time . |
| 5 | At the core of this debate is the precariousness of state arts funding throughout the United States , and the threat of reductions in public funding at a time when cutting the government 's colossal budget deficit is a national priority . |
| 6 | He was by no means a major figure in British politics at the time , though this had not prevented his being offered in 1920 , when he was a mere back-bench MP , the governor-generalship of South Africa — an offer which was withdrawn when the South Africans pressed their desire for someone more important . |
| 7 | Mortgage interest relief , for example , which cost £1.25 billion a year in lost revenue at the time Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 , is currently running at a total of £6.5 billion annually . |
| 8 | The process works ( sometimes ) because the immune system can cope with small numbers of viruses , although this was unknown in immunological terms at the time . |
| 9 | The family was forced to flee ahead of the Russian advance in 1916 , and eventually settled in Vienna , where Erika learned her first card game , Preference , common in central Europe at the time . |
| 10 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 11 | Some of the mercury was already in organic form at the time of discharge , and the mercury compounds underwent further ‘ biotransformation ’ inside the fish , which rendered them extremely dangerous . |
| 12 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 13 | A high rate of abnormal defects had been found in herring and salmon which had spawned in shallow waters at the time of the incident . |
| 14 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 15 | He was already in poor health at the time of his resignation , and he did not long survive it , dying 30 May 1630 , and being buried at Langar . |
| 16 | Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time . |
| 17 | The affected ulcerative colitis twins were in clinical remission at the time of biopsy , and histological evaluation showed no signs of mucosal inflammation . |
| 18 | When you pour anything , when the train is moving , you pour in small amounts at a time , and you keep the cup or glass close to you . |
| 19 | Ostensibly it is a tale of the supernatural ; of religious hysteria and demonic possession set in 16th-century Germany at the time of the Inquisition . |
| 20 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 21 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |
| 22 | Bronze easting of Thor the thunder God who was worshipped extensively in northern Europe at the time of Charlemagne 's enforced military evangelism . |
| 23 | Nicanor Costa Mendez , a former Foreign Minister and a key figure in Argentine diplomacy at the time of the Falklands/Malvinas war of 1982 , died of cancer on Aug. 2 , aged 69 . |
| 24 | It was helped enormously by its expertise in financial services at a time when the demand for headhunting services in this sector was reaching unprecedented heights . |
| 25 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 26 | I hope that , if they ask me , they will let me take in alphabetical chunks at a time , as the full whack weighs about a stone ! ! ! |
| 27 | The warranties ( but not usually the tax indemnities ) in the sale and purchase agreement are given subject to disclosures made in a separate disclosure letter from the seller ( or its solicitors ) to the acquirer ( or its solicitors ) handed over in final form at the time of the signing of the agreement . |
| 28 | The exemption covers the situation where the trustee or personal representative , who , through owing fiduciary obligations to his beneficiary , is required to deal in certain securities at a time when he is in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 29 | Moslem Spain was the most cultured society in Western Europe at the time . |
| 30 | ( By way of indication of what this represented in the family budget , it has been estimated that weekly expenditure on food in working-class families at the time was about 35 per head . ) " |