Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at the time " in BNC.

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1 But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time .
2 ‘ Of course I was at the time .
3 I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life .
4 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) .
5 Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa .
8 We 'll have to see what 's , where we are at the time .
9 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 ) .
10 The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time .
11 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 .
12 The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions .
13 Erm er they formed this committee and erm it was in Switzerland er where they were at the time .
14 Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored .
15 The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue .
16 Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August .
17 It is at the time when someone can say , ‘ This time last year … ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time .
21 It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along .
22 It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent .
23 The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) .
24 Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel .
25 ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . )
26 did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all
27 We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded .
28 Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded .
29 I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving .
30 It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do .
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