Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true the funding arrangements at the time of the research did not allow for holiday pay , sick pay , and so on . |
| 2 | But the accepted value of the solar radius , 959–63 seconds of arc , is based on 19th-century observations , and became enshrined in the text books at a time when the Sun was close to a minimum of the 76-year cycle . |
| 3 | All this is in marked contrast to the US , where , ironically , anti-insider dealing legislation was first put onto the statute books at a time when the universal banking model was being abandoned there because it was considered too risky . |
| 4 | Christian is Bunyan himself , leaving his wife and children , as he had done when he went to prison , to undertake the pilgrimage to everlasting life : the imagery is taken not only from the Bible but from the chapbooks and folktales which were sold by travelling hawkers in the Bedfordshire villages at the time . |
| 5 | That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case . |
| 6 | This is the ‘ Harvest Festival ’ scene , which was apparently found pretty banal by the Dresden critics at the time of the première . |
| 7 | In the weeks following her arrest Jacqueline Droully was seen by other prisoners in secret detention centres run by the Directorate of National Intelligence ( DINA ) , the security police at the time . |
| 8 | The Celts were pressing on the Macedonian frontiers at the time of Philip 11 and of Alexander the Great . |
| 9 | The Homecover policy holder is responsible for payment of all the repair charges at the time of completion of the repairs . |
| 10 | It may be poetic irony , but I was attending a convention in Hong Kong and working resolutely for the cigarette manufacturers at the time of my infarct . |
| 11 | We were also glad to report that the lease holders at the time found that it was n't profitable and relinquished their rights . |
| 12 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 13 | Women 's social identity was assumed by the recording authorities at the time , and still is in most historical and sociological analysis , to depend on that of their fathers and husbands . |
| 14 | The duty of determining such questions is cast by law , not upon the courts after the event , but upon the police authorities at the time when the decision has to be taken ; and a court which attempted to review such a decision from the point of view of its wisdom or prudence would ( I think ) be exceeding its proper functions . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a hysterical scene — unless you happened to be in the housing offices at the time . ’ |
| 16 | The Leger Gallery was founded in 1892 by Joseph Leger , whose activities were ‘ modest as a dealer in the period up to the end of the Great War and typical of an age in which there were few private clients and virtually no museum purchases ’ astonishing in view of the purchasing possibilities at the time . |
| 17 | One of the graduate trainees at the time I was there was Alan Williams , son of Emlyn and to become himself a bestselling author . |