Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 2 | Trodd says that he supported that decision at the time . |
| 3 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 4 | Even after counselling , though , what seemed the right decision at the time can be a source of regret later . |
| 5 | As Paris et al performed their measurements by instant manometry using the solid or liquid bolus , the difference between their results and ours is entirely attributable to the positive effect of the arrival of the liquid or solid bolus in the segment of colon in their studies , while in our patients the propulsive waves were in response to the contents of the colonic segment at the time . |
| 6 | Alix was asleep upstairs at the time , with Nicholas . |
| 7 | I did a little research at the time of the East German business . |
| 8 | Both flashbulb and vivid memories can be inaccurate and do show some forgetting over time ( McCloskey et al. , 1988 ) and there certainly are memories of this type which do not necessary involve emotional arousal at the time . |
| 9 | The sampling of events in these two studies was not completely random ( see for comparison Brewer , 1988 ) , nonetheless the studies do suggest that although emotionally arousing circumstances can sometimes be well remembered even after very considerable delays ( c.f. Wagenaar & Groeneweg , 1990 ) it seems unlikely that actual feelings of emotional arousal at the time are either necessary or sufficient to cause dramatically enhanced memory . |
| 10 | Luckily she was the only person on the top deck at the time . |
| 11 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 12 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 13 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 14 | ‘ His , er , surcoat has both the lions of England and the lilies of France because we were laying claim to the disputed French throne at the time . |
| 15 | Although the Bury to Heywood line has been disused since 1980 , the majority of track remains in place thanks to the persuasive powers that Rochdale Council exerted on British Rail at the time . |
| 16 | There was some hope at the time of the Maastricht negotiations that the centralising tendencies of the European Community would be checked by the ‘ principle of subsidiarity ’ . |
| 17 | The magnetism is built into the basalt when it is first formed , and it records the nature of the Earth 's magnetic field at the time of formation . |
| 18 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 19 | I had some sympathy at the time , but not anymore . |
| 20 | If we again discount this income at the time or get it looks like that . |
| 21 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 22 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 23 | There also appeared to be less dissension on state aid and subsidies , a subject given added poignancy by the recent revelations about the UK Government 's ‘ sweeteners ’ to British Aerospace at the time of the takeover of Rover . |
| 24 | Following the Commission 's order of June 28 , 1990 , that the £42,900,000 in " sweeteners " paid to British Aerospace at the time of its purchase of the Rover motor group should be repaid , the UK government announced that it was suing British Aerospace for the return of the money , and Rover for another £1,500,000 [ see pp. 37582-83 ] . |
| 25 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 26 | Their name signified ‘ sons of Zadok ’ , the high priest at the time of David who was thought to be a descendant of the younger son of Aaron . |
| 27 | The Sadducees claimed direct descent from Zadok who was the High Priest at the time of King Solomon ( 1 Kings 2:35 ) . |
| 28 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |
| 29 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 30 | Celsus senior may have been very advanced to arrive at this conception at the time he did . |