Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did matter but we did n't know that at the time did we ? |
| 2 | The key to a successful prosecution is proving that at the time of the offence the children understood the seriousness of what they were doing and were not simply behaving mischievously . |
| 3 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 4 | I would therefore expect that at the time of the next recession , markets will be much less vulnerable to cost-cutting . |
| 5 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 6 | It just seemed easier to let everyone assume that at the time … ’ |
| 7 | First , an exclusion clause in an unsigned document is not incorporated unless at the time of making the contract , either the buyer was aware of its existence or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to his attention . |
| 8 | A special problem may arise if at the time the decision is made the patient has been subjected to the influence of some third party . |
| 9 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 10 | My memory is n't what it was ; but I do remember that at the time the aircraft was considered the fastest in the Middle East . |
| 11 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 12 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
| 13 | The court was told that at the time he thought he had AIDS . |
| 14 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 15 | Kylie recalls that at the time , ‘ Jason was really chubby with a bowl haircut and I was really small with straight blonde hair . ’ |
| 16 | Neither will the contract be avoided or frustrated if at the time the goods perish , property has already passed to the buyer . |
| 17 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 18 | Lambarde writing here at Halling in 1596 when he revised his Perambulation of Kent , states that at the time of the Charter there were in Kent more kings than one , going on to state that " by occassion of this old Charter , I am afraid from the history of Halling I find none other report in writing " . |
| 19 | An inquest jury in Middlesbrough heard that at the time a module had been loaded onto a large barge ready to go out to sea . |
| 20 | But they were n't checked because at the time he was renting a suite at the Crillon . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is quite in order , ’ he said , ‘ for a person to put assets into family trusts , or indeed give assets away to other parties , provided that at the time a person gives away his assets he is quite solvent . ’ |
| 22 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 23 | It is the users responsibility to ensure that at the time of the next offline run , the specified terminal is connected and not logged in — the offline system will not allocate a terminal to itself if it is already allocated to another VAX/VMS process . |
| 24 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 25 | We note that at the time of going to press a restructuring of the advisory service is under consideration ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 26 | It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner . |
| 27 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 28 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |
| 29 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 30 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |