Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
2 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |
3 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
4 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
5 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
6 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |
7 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
8 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |