Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
| 32 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 33 | And you firmly believe that at the time ! |
| 34 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 35 | The Supreme Court could find no proof that Kopp had known this at the time she made the call . |
| 36 | If you require delivery of your car to the airport into which you are flying , please state this at the time of booking . |
| 37 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 38 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 39 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
| 40 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 41 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 42 | Latest traffic figures available at the time of writing showed that the airport had its busiest October on record . |
| 43 | If you ca n't run — maybe you are taking your grandmother for a walk — then you have to deter the ‘ nasties ’ using whatever method seems best at the time . |
| 44 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |
| 45 | The non-Power Launcher way of doing things normally involves opening the program group your application is in , finding the icon and double clicking on it , accepting that any other windows you may have open at the time will be overwritten if the application starts up maximised . |
| 46 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
| 47 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |
| 48 | It is important that the explanatory statement should remain accurate at the time at which it is voted upon at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 49 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |
| 50 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 51 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 52 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 53 | Sadly , our voice went unheard at the time . |
| 54 | Before the Washington meeting , US and EC officials had met near London 's Heathrow Airport on April 14 for talks , kept secret at the time , to try to narrow the gap between them . |
| 55 | If we were correct in our hypothesis of Jesus 's marriage and children , or even if it were believed true at the time , it would do much to explain the agreed rapport between Constantine and the Roman Church . |
| 56 | Supporters of the quantity theory argued that V will be influenced by the customs and payments practices prevailing at the time , and that such arrangements change only slowly . |
| 57 | But the alert believer should be aware of the main tendencies to doubt prevalent at the time . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Even if the accident does not seem serious at the time , but you think it might have some ill-effect in the future you should apply to the DSS for a decision that it was an industrial accident . |
| 60 | The compensation we will pay is the market value of the item up to the maximum Code of Practice Compensation limit applicable at the time of posting . |