Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you would do in your case with children is probably appoint them all and then they do n't all have to prove so they would hopefully discuss this at the time and say Well you know I 'm a long way away why do n't you two get on with . |
| 2 | I did not know this at the time . |
| 3 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 4 | I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April . |
| 5 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 6 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 7 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 8 | EIB loans are usually made in the form of a ‘ cocktail ’ of several currencies , depending upon the currencies which the Bank has available at the time of the loan . |
| 9 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 10 | X can do this at the time of giving the goods to Y or at any later stage . |
| 11 | None of the nomes in the cab noticed this at the time . |
| 12 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 13 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 14 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 15 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 16 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 17 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 18 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 19 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 20 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 21 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 22 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 23 | It did sound odd at the time . |
| 24 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 25 | This , of course , was nothing to be ashamed of , but I did not realize that at the time . |
| 26 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 27 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |
| 28 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |
| 29 | They did not , of course , know this at the time . |
| 30 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |