Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 2 | She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry . |
| 3 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 4 | ‘ Apart from the fact that you were three months pregnant at the time of Simon 's death , ’ Vitor completed . |
| 5 | Gordon Harker 's girlfriend Lisa Hughill was five months pregnant at the time of the assault . |
| 6 | I was at eight months pregnant at the time . |
| 7 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 8 | One of the children taken from this family was only six months old at the time of removal . |
| 9 | There was one child amongst the others called who was eight months old at the time . |
| 10 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 11 | One must first consider the computers available at the time , which were roughly equivalent in power to an average modern programmable calculator . |
| 12 | And there indeed they are — an odd little cluster of houses built a century and a half ago , in a jumbled assortment of all the styles available at the time . |
| 13 | The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time . |
| 14 | Paragraph 27 of the [ draft ] FRS requires that the initial accounting for the loan should be based on the circumstances prevailing at the time the loan is entered into and so , for example , changes in a relevant index subsequent to issue should not be anticipated . |
| 15 | These restrictions on alienation will dictate , apart from the market circumstances prevailing at the time , how accommodation is packaged in the market for sub-letting . |
| 16 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 17 | He observed an agent , invisible with the microscopes available at the time , which could be propagated like bacteria in cultures and which dissolved bacteria in cultures which were infected with it . |
| 18 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 19 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 20 | He was thirty-eight years old at the time — why the hell had n't we heard of him ? |
| 21 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 22 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 23 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 24 | My daughter , who was six years old at the time , was delighted to be sleeping in Mummy 's bed and I was delighted to have her with me . |
| 25 | The archer who holds this distinction is Michael Leach , who was only twelve years old at the time . |
| 26 | He was 38 years old at the time of this raid . |
| 27 | I was eight years old at the time and completely confused by their attitude . |
| 28 | He was 60 years old at the time of Messines , with wide and varied military service behind him , including fighting in South Africa during the Boer War ( 1899–1902 ) , when he played a distinguished part in the relief of Mafeking . |
| 29 | The young man ( he was but sixteen years old at the time ) was fighting for justice , for the claim of his father , Edward III , to the throne of France . |
| 30 | ( 15 years old at the time of writing ) Runner-up for the 1991 BBC WILDLIFE Magazine Award for Young Writers ( aged 13–17 ) |