Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 11 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 17 | It did sound odd at the time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Latest traffic figures available at the time of writing showed that the airport had its busiest October on record . |
| 27 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
| 30 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |