Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 2 | After much furore , his results were published in Nature , along with , in a development unheard of at the time , a criticism of his data by one of the paper 's referees , the chemist Walter Stewart . |
| 3 | Of all the people she could have been stuck with at a time like this ! |
| 4 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 5 | Less radical than the abolitionist , but perhaps more realistic , the reductionist seeks a minimalist prison system ( which it might be argued England , with a rate of 28 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants , was not far from at the time of Brockway 's article ) within which reasonably decent standards might be maintained . |
| 6 | He had been killed instantly along with two other Commandos who were close by at the time , their remains scattered through the trees . |
| 7 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |