Example sentences of "[be] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 2 | ‘ the defendant owed no duty of care to the infant plaintiff she being at the time of the collision en ventre sa mère , not an existing person and merely part of her mother . |
| 3 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 4 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |
| 5 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 6 | These firms were at the time of out visit listed over each block of filing cabinets . |
| 7 | Ballymacarrett and Clonard people were at the time of the research overwhelmingly unemployed or in unskilled and low-status occupations . |
| 8 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 9 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 10 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 11 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 12 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 13 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 14 | He may , where the goods are at the time of the sale in the possession of a third party ( e.g. at a warehouse ) , instruct the third party to hold the goods to the order of the buyer . |
| 15 | Although in 1981 a question was asked about usual residence , UK censuses are de facto , i.e. individuals are enumerated on the basis of where they are at the time of the census ( This avoids the need to define the distinction between temporary and permanent residence ) . |
| 16 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 18 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 19 | The most recent and important example comes from the proposed Forest Bill of India which is at the time of writing about to come before Parliament . |
| 20 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 21 | Incidentally , this choice also justifies the ‘ north-western ’ bias of our cases , for north-west England is at the time of writing still one of the strongholds of the small to medium regional brewery . |
| 22 | It is at the time of delivery that the goods must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyer indicated he wanted them . |
| 23 | This is more likely to occur the further away the spot price is at the time of delivery from the price that was agreed at the time the contract was negotiated ( i.e. the forward price ) . |
| 24 | Thus , Marius of Avenches records a land division made with Gallo-Roman senators , under the year 456 , that is at the time of the fall of the emperor Avitus . |
| 25 | The word here denotes the ( pragmatically bounded ) place where the speaker ( A ) is at the time of speaking ; if B does not know ( or can not find out ) where A is , here is uninterpretable in the sense that B can not comply with the request to go there . |
| 26 | Such change is at the time of writing imminent , though it is unlikely that the whole profession will be affected at the outset . |
| 27 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 28 | Because of these uncertainties the appropriate time for selecting the multiplier is at the time of death and the number of pre-trial years for which special damages are awarded should then be deducted from the multiplier ( Graham v Dodds [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 808 ) . |
| 29 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 30 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |