Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if if they were if they were in erm in full-time education at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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offered in 1920 , when he was a mere back-bench MP , the governor-generalship of South Africa — an offer which was withdrawn when the South Africans pressed their desire for someone more important . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time . |
| 9 | The affected ulcerative colitis twins were in clinical remission at the time of biopsy , and histological evaluation showed no signs of mucosal inflammation . |
| 10 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As in the Certain Standards , among the many audio.visual items to be included were stereographic materials , apparently in plentiful supply at the time . |
| 15 | Some foods , however , are seasonal , so when it comes to buying fruit , vegetables and salad , for example , you will need to look out for those products that are in plentiful supply at the time , and consequently more reasonably priced . |
| 16 | As his hip was in bad shape at the time , Jack hesitated and asked , ‘ How far is it ? ’ and received the whispered reply , ‘ Only three hundred yards . ’ |