Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire . |
| 2 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 3 | On IPE and Fox , in the case of futures trades , the rules are more relaxed and allow the whole order to be filled off the floor provided it is within the minimum fluctuation in the pit at the time . |
| 4 | My cousin er what 's name now Kenneth was the Lieutenant Colonel , and was the youngest commanding officer in the army at the time of Alamein . |
| 5 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 6 | And Rome insisted that the ritual occur in a consecrated church — which , given the relatively few churches in the country at the time and their tendency to be congregated in certain areas , was not always possible in Ireland . |
| 7 | The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy . |
| 8 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |
| 9 | A majority of those elected in 1968 were later active in the civil rights movement and a number were involved in the DHAC at the time of their election . |
| 10 | ‘ You were in the bathroom at the time . ’ |
| 11 | Authorised is important because there was a famous case of an insurance company turning down a claim for a fitted kitchen damaged by fire when they discovered that a motorbike was in the kitchen at the time . |
| 12 | You were lucky to be in the kitchen at the time . ’ |
| 13 | The conviction could be even more serious for Dr Bromley , 48 , who was not even in the surgery at the time . |
| 14 | Information published in Le Figaro in September 1991 following Swiss investigations appeared to confirm that , as speculated in the press at the time , Roger-Patrice Pelat , a friend of Mitterrand who died in March 1989 [ see p. 36706 ] , had bought a large number of Triangle shares via a Swiss company , Experta Treuhand , only days before the Pechiney-ANC deal . |
| 15 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
| 16 | The staff present in the building at the time of the murder were then questioned individually under the assumption that the plants would register the high level of emotion in any guilty party when he or she was questioned . |
| 17 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , the current ( Croatian ) President of the Collective State Presidency Stjepan Mesic and federal Prime Minister Markovic , who were all in the building at the time , were unhurt . |
| 18 | There were between 10 and 20 aircraft in the circuit at the time and G-AYIH was seen by witnesses and on radar to join the circuit at the beginning of the downwind leg about one mile south of runway 26 . |
| 19 | It is a blessing that no one was in the church at the time . ’ |
| 20 | Alternatively one could simply say the seats were actually all taken , and that all three occupants happened to be in the toilet at the time . |
| 21 | No one was in the toilet at the time . |
| 22 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 24 | This first approach to studying international relations has become known as Idealism , although this was not a term that the academics working in the subject at the time used themselves . |
| 25 | Whatever was going on in the village at the time when say the threshing machine was going round . |
| 26 | What happens when the account is in the black at the time of presentation but in the red when the bank honours the withdrawal ? |
| 27 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 28 | Which was pretty demoralizing for us that were in the water at the time but |
| 29 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
| 30 | And , I hazard a guess , more logged flying time than the sum total of all the senior officers in the Command at the time . |