Example sentences of "[noun] know at the time " in BNC.

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1 His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis .
2 It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton , which was the only other particle known at the time , and that would be the end of theoretical physics .
3 The microbes known at the time did not pass through filters , so the nature of the material was obscure .
4 I said , I do n't suppose Steve knew at the time .
5 Now what do the police know at the time .
6 The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time .
7 As Eric Fawcett recalls , ‘ It was a polymer so unlike the polymers known at the time that no one could envisage a use for it .
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