Example sentences of "[adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | One may be aware of feelings , sexual ones for example , that one is not able to conceptualise as sexual at the time . |
| 32 | The actual Indian designs were not , however , to the taste of the British at the time , who had developed a somewhat different image of Oriental peoples . |
| 33 | None of this was known to the British at the time . |
| 34 | Contrary to assessments made by the British at the time of signing , there are many examples of these . |
| 35 | ‘ Nice day ! ’ , in the style of Dickie Murdoch , the comedian in ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh ’ , the radio programme which was very popular at the time . |
| 36 | He went to the woods in Massachusetts as a naturalist , rather than a writer or thinker ; his purpose was to disprove the theory , popular at the time , that plants and trees sprang spontaneously from the ground . |
| 37 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 38 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 39 | Gesualdo 's later madrigals , however fascinating their scent of decadence , are an evolutionary dead end ; Monteverdi was taking part in the transformation of the madrigal into something quite different , though in view of his dramatic and pictorial ability it is strange that he neglected to produce one of those suites of madrigals popular at the time ( comedie armoniche ) realistically describing women gossiping at the wash ( Striggio 's Cicalamento delle donne al bucato , 1567 ) , Venetian scenes ( Croce 's Triaca musicale , 1596 ) , or a complete commedia dell'arte ( the Am–parnaso , 1597 , of Orazio Vecchi ( 1550–1605 ) , the outstanding masterpiece of this genre ) , and a whole series of works by Banchieri . |
| 40 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 41 | These also lay out the range of tempos for minuets popular at the time , ones by Handel ( slow , 3/4 , dotted minim = 46 ; fast , 6/8 , dotted crotchet = 68 ) and Geminiani ( fast , 3/8 , dotted crotchet = 59 ) . |
| 42 | Cos that so song was popular at the time ! |
| 43 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 44 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |
| 45 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 46 | There was no apparent reason why the road should not have been used as it was free at the time . |
| 47 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
| 48 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 49 | The term ’ provisional sum ’ is defined as ’ a sum provided for work or for costs which can not be entirely foreseen , defined or detailed at the time the tendering documents are issued ’ . |
| 50 | Acknowledge just how much you have learned from those experiences which may have appeared difficult or unpleasant at the time . |
| 51 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 52 | But they want to be sure it is empty at the time they might need to sell or redevelop . |
| 53 | The Phoenix in London 's Charing Cross Road , which was empty at the time , would n't take the play . |
| 54 | A patrolling policewoman 's prompt call to Cleveland Fire Brigade prevented the fire from taking hold at the club , which was empty at the time . |
| 55 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 56 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 57 | He was thirty-eight years old at the time — why the hell had n't we heard of him ? |
| 58 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 59 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 60 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |