Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that there must be an accumulation of ‘ circumstances ’ and ‘ currents ’ that ‘ fuse ’ into a ‘ ruptural unity ’ that involves not only the level of the relations of production but also the conditions of existence prevailing at the time and the international conjuncture ( Althusser 1969 : 100 ) . |
| 2 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 3 | Earlier studies of such palaeomagnetism in France and Japan had shown that iron-rich volcanic rocks , such as basalt , record the magnetic field prevailing at the time they are formed . |
| 4 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 5 | She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry . |
| 6 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 7 | ‘ Apart from the fact that you were three months pregnant at the time of Simon 's death , ’ Vitor completed . |
| 8 | Gordon Harker 's girlfriend Lisa Hughill was five months pregnant at the time of the assault . |
| 9 | I was at eight months pregnant at the time . |
| 10 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 11 | His claim would be excluded by your policy because it was a fault inherent at the time of purchase . |
| 12 | I understand that , but under the wording of your insurance that claim would be invalidated because it was a fault inherent at the time of purchase . |
| 13 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 14 | One of the children taken from this family was only six months old at the time of removal . |
| 15 | There was one child amongst the others called who was eight months old at the time . |
| 16 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 17 | One must first consider the computers available at the time , which were roughly equivalent in power to an average modern programmable calculator . |
| 18 | And there indeed they are — an odd little cluster of houses built a century and a half ago , in a jumbled assortment of all the styles available at the time . |
| 19 | Using an analogy fashionable at the time the Gestalt psychologists maintained that these distortions were due to interactions between ‘ electric ’ fields induced in the visual cortex by the stimuli . |
| 20 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 21 | The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time . |
| 22 | Paragraph 27 of the [ draft ] FRS requires that the initial accounting for the loan should be based on the circumstances prevailing at the time the loan is entered into and so , for example , changes in a relevant index subsequent to issue should not be anticipated . |
| 23 | These restrictions on alienation will dictate , apart from the market circumstances prevailing at the time , how accommodation is packaged in the market for sub-letting . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 25 | If this was the case new reports would be expected to include fewer recent infections and the average age of people with newly diagnosed HIV infection and the proportion symptomatic at the time of the HIV-1 test would rise . |
| 26 | In keeping with this hypothesis , the spontaneous increase in InsP 3 at the time of mesoderm induction was completely suppressed by Li + treatment . |
| 27 | He observed an agent , invisible with the microscopes available at the time , which could be propagated like bacteria in cultures and which dissolved bacteria in cultures which were infected with it . |
| 28 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 29 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 30 | He was thirty-eight years old at the time — why the hell had n't we heard of him ? |