Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the explosion appeared to be unplanned because of the time it occurred . |
| 2 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
| 3 | Even if one of the two exceptions applies , dismissal will still be unfair if at the time of the dismissal there was a suitable alternative vacancy which was not offered in accordance with the detailed requirements of the employment protection legislation . |
| 4 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 5 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |
| 6 | Excess is insidious because at the time it seems a bonus but later on it can be an expense that diverts resources from development areas . |
| 7 | Had Mafart and Prieur simply abandoned the camper and boarded the flight they would have left the country undetected because at the time the police believed they were still driving around the country . |
| 8 | The practice is classed as having been professionally marginal because at the time of the research it was new to the town . |
| 9 | For me it was a good thing to get married young because by the time I got into show business the marriage was already solid . |
| 10 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 11 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 12 | Negotiations went ahead but it all got a bit bizarre because at the time Barry 's manager was called Larry , his road manager was called Gary and his assistant was called Harry — so we had Barry , Larry , Gary and Harry — in fact , I think there were two Gary 's , just to make it confusing . |