Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] at the time " in BNC.

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1 For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) .
2 We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time .
3 This means that the defect is judged in the light of the scientific and technical knowledge at the time the product was under the control of the person seeking to rely on the defence .
4 It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 ; indeed evidence seems to indicate that it was one of the oldest and largest settlements at the time of Domesday .
5 For the first time in my life I tasted champagne and I did not care for it very much because I was a complete and absolute non-drinker at the time , I would like to warn anybody that this was something which did not last for very long : I have since acquired an insatiable thirst and desire for champagne .
6 Induced innovation did occur for these great and developing nations because it was central to their national development and they both had particularly advantageous social and natural endowments at the time .
7 The dinosaurs probably lost the race against time , having already lost bipedality and vestigial hands at the time when mammalian-type warm-bloodedness would almost certainly have guaranteed their survival into perpetuity .
8 I 've seen many concrete steps , otherwise well constructed , crying for a little finishing and more support at the time of casting .
9 The early assessment of infarct size through the collection of clinical , radiological and biochemical data at the time of admission such as in the Killip , Norris or Peel indices or by direct haemodynamic monitoring allows an accurate assessment of prognosis and implies that extensive myocardial infarction remains a persistent liability ( Figure 1 ) .
10 The tuition in the conducting class may have been poor but Vienna had a very rich concert and operatic life at the time .
11 All subjects had a normal diet and were free of inflammatory bowel disease and of benign and malignant tumours at the time of complete colonoscopy .
12 In London , the Old Kent Road and Anerley Schools for the Deaf which were both occupied by civil defence and military authorities at the time were also substantially damaged and needed major repairs after the war before they could be reoccupied .
13 This view of the decade is now very widely accepted , and with reason : political and other stresses at the time did encourage in many quarters a rejection of modernism in favour of documentary , realistic forms more obviously attuned to the contemporary crisis .
14 He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation .
15 Both groups are eligible for travelling and subsistence payments , housing visits and special leave at the time of the move but there are differences between other allowances paid to new and existing workers .
16 The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure .
17 These were the prevailing attitudes towards teaching Art in colleges and most schools at the time Basil , and later Rosemary Rocke , commenced their advisory work in the West Riding of Yorkshire .
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