Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 2 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 3 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident . |
| 5 | A spring frost at the time of flowering can cause imperfect fertilisation resulting in millerandage , the formation of tiny hard berries which will not swell or ripen . |
| 6 | The ‘ rather dirty ’ old paintings had been a wedding present at the time of Mrs Luxmoore-May 's first marriage in 1948 . |
| 7 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 8 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 9 | I was working in a car factory at the time . |
| 10 | Samuel Bamford 's father was a muslin weaver at the time . |
| 11 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 12 | Well I was a drama student at the time and I suppose erm |
| 13 | ‘ She was a member of your Justice Police and involved in a security operation at the time of her death . |
| 14 | She kept a Tiger Moth at the time , housed in an old barn , using the South Meadow as an airstrip . |
| 15 | A bridge had been carried away in Castle Street , so likely there had been a flood tide at the time . |
| 16 | Ward was a Guinness director at the time . |
| 17 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 18 | Mrs Whitehouse , for example , says she received a phone call at the time of the case from an evangelist who was travelling in Denmark . |
| 19 | It should be noted that a similar order of precedence exists in Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet as in Petipa 's The Sleeping Beauty which was supposed to be an evocation of a court ballet at the time of Louis XIV . |
| 20 | Hagans was staying at a bail hostel at the time where the only restriction was that he had to be in beween 11 a.m. in the evening and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 21 | There were U A B , Unemployment Assistant Board and there was a means test at the time as well . |
| 22 | Lloyds gives a guide price at the time of dealing . |
| 23 | That case also arose out of a motor accident at the time when the infant 's mother was carrying the unborn child . |
| 24 | I used to use a similar item — called a Plonker Box at the time — years ago , on the sides of two or three of my computers , and never lost so much a byte of information . |
| 25 | Mrs Gawthrop 's first Rottweiler was Adda of Mallion , who held her own at All Breed Shows in the UK ; she was placed , which was difficult for a minority breed at the time , in variety classes . |
| 26 | According to a government minister at the time , the act recognized that the railways ‘ are not a normal nationalized industry but a unique type of public corporation which exists to service social and environmental purposes as well as the economic needs ’ ( Hansard , 24 June 1974 ) . |
| 27 | It was wearing a radio collar at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 29 | you 're a hospital in-patient at the time the wig or fabric support is supplied or |
| 30 | Mr Anthony Hamnett , 48 , a trainee solicitor at the time with Nabarro Nathanson , admitted eating the penis under pressure from secretaries during the lunch held in a Chelsea restaurant just before Christmas 1990 . |