Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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31 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
32 | A problem arose because it was believed that Macmillan had secured terms of reference which would entitle the Tribunal to investigate not merely Vassall , but also rumours relating to Vassall that were circulating at the time , rumours about many discreditable matters but mainly his sexual activities . |
33 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
34 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
35 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
36 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
37 | It is hard to remember , unless something similar is happening at the time , exactly how strongly people feel at moments of great political crisis , how they are carried away by conviction of the rightness of their own side and by contempt and hatred of the other . |
38 | In James they are a further indication of the ramifications of consciousness : past memories , future expectations and hypothetical suppositions are as much implicated in the would-be tutor 's predicament as what is happening at the time . |
39 | It all depends what he 's writing at the time . ’ |
40 | If the power is accidentally turned off in use or the power source runs out , the user 's place is kept automatically in whatever application is running at the time . |
41 | It 's great for people like me who do research into politics and literature because you know , Johnson 's like a key to ev whatever he 's thinking at the time . |
42 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
43 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
44 | It was raining at the time . |
45 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
46 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
47 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
48 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
49 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
50 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
51 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
52 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
53 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
54 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
55 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
56 | Only I was passing at the time . |
57 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
58 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
59 | We all knew each other anyway — I 've known Si the bass player and Chris the drummer for years — but it was one of those places where everyone was going at the time , where you could meet other musicians and bounce some ideas around . |
60 | Maybe the local gossip that was going at the time . |