Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes I was collector collected the money the dues and in er bakery at the time .
2 This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued .
3 As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time .
4 What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise .
5 The element of ‘ mens rea ’ — that is to say , what was actually in the accused 's mind at the time of the assault — is of utmost importance .
6 Debbie Kaye , Gedge 's girlfriend at the time , worked hard on the band 's behalf and became a manager-type figure .
7 Among the other girls tested for the part of Amy were 23-year-old Judy Geeson , who had already played a number of cock-teasing roles , and Joie Gould , an English secretary who was Peckinpah 's girlfriend at the time .
8 Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story .
9 Erm , but generally , ye I mean cos Eileen and I go to a we nearly always go somewhere like Carriages or you know , somewhere Italian which is , you know , it might , it all depends on what Jim 's eating at the time .
10 It was a command that would result in the slaying of actress of Sharon Tate ( who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski 's child at the time of her fatal stabbing ) , coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her lover Wojiciech Frykowski , delivery boy Steven Earl Parent and Hollywood hair stylist to the stars , Jay Sebring .
11 Among them were Mr Reed , Nicholas Wells , who had put the issue together at County , and Martin Gibbs , head of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , County 's stockbroker at the time , although he has since retired .
12 Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 .
13 The plaintiff 's case is that despite the difficulty with the landlord 's consent at the time the contracts were signed , it was made clear to them by Mr at this stage that that ought to be a formality and no one anticipated to expect this .
14 The song , featuring several different sections , was a fine summary of the band 's sound at the time .
15 As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith .
16 An example of such a condition would be if , to the buyer 's knowledge at the time the contract was made , the seller was not the owner of the goods .
17 As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time .
18 Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim .
19 The Bulgarians wanted Guentchev to join their squad for the match with Austria in Vienna , but Town 's schedule at the time was too hectic .
20 Harry had derided Ockleton 's theory at the time .
21 Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending .
22 ‘ Having established that the larger skeleton was that of a female , I set about making an estimate of the subject 's age at the time of her death .
23 Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later :
24 They took full advantage of the general liberalisation , that was the government 's policy at the time , to fight against the constraints imposed by the labour system .
25 These are all experiences we have had that tell us about the body 's state at the time , and we do not have difficulty in interpreting them .
26 Who was Neville Chamberlain 's secretary at the time of the Munich Agreement ?
27 He is suing Jocelyn Timothy Thomas , a solicitor who held his late brother 's will at the time of his death , for negligence to the tune of £4 million .
28 According to a witness accompanying Constantine 's army at the time , the vision was of the sun god — the deity worshipped by certain cults under the name of Sol Invictus , the ‘ Invincible Sun ’ .
29 For four hours they chanted ‘ Down with ( Yefrem ) Sokolov ’ — the republic 's party chief — and cheered calls for the prosecution of those running the republic 's government at the time of the disaster .
30 Just which ‘ caves ’ and why ( it would n't stop the partying which takes place on the embankments ) is anyone 's guess at the time of writing .
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