Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern , clear enough at the time , had been obscured by the revival of Walter Machin 's reputation , and Viola 's desire to rewrite history , to have her marriage accepted as perfect , if tragically brief . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 3 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 4 | However , the situation of older and younger generations is similar in a different sense , in that in both cases the position of individuals within those structures is determined very largely by factors outside their control — very obviously so at the time when the issue of old age pensions was first on the agenda . |
| 5 | But the most notable act of all this trans-Pacific ambition — when seen from today 's vantage point , if not necessarily so at the time — was President Fillmore 's decision to send out Commodore Perry and his ‘ black ships ’ , to bring sense to the isolationist shoguns who in almost Carthusian seclusion , ran the state of Nihon . |
| 6 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 7 | However , there are many aspects to the definition of an interface for systems as complex as GIS , and the solutions to this problem are developing extremely rapidly at the time of writing . |
| 8 | It is remarkable , however , that his fixed-wing propeller-driven models showed the way ahead so clearly at a time when most other proposals for aerial machines involved flapping wings or unlikely applications of the helicopter principle . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |
| 10 | But , more importantly at the time , he brought in Amstrad chief Sugar to help thwart a take-over bid by newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell and save the club from possible bankruptcy . |
| 11 | All this is exceedingly American and seems even more so at a time , in the cinema at least , where men love men best and occasionally try for sex with women . |
| 12 | The men he had killed were only electronic ghosts , but they had seemed real enough at the time . |
| 13 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 14 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 15 | In all 228,000 US reservists had been called into service , of whom 106,000 were deployed in the Gulf ( 20,000 being still there at the time of the June 11 announcement ) ; the total US armed forces contingent in the Gulf had numbered 541,000 . |
| 16 | SPIKE LEE is once again in hot water , once again at a time when he 's got a movie to promote . |
| 17 | Then again , the population of the country as a whole was rising fairly quickly at the time of the enclosure movement , especially in the industrial villages of the Midlands , and there was a demand for houses . |
| 18 | I do n't think Chris and the band know each other well enough at the time . |
| 19 | This policy , which was very much stimulated by the convertibility crisis in 1947 , was tightened up even further at the time of the next sterling crisis in 1949 . |
| 20 | One man further down the street was a Somerset-born commercial traveller for a draper — very much like Benjamin 's father , Ben the Outrider — and Henry Budeler at no. 13a , assistant to a law stationer , had been born in Frome almost exactly at the time when Ben , senior , was leaving that town for London . |
| 21 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 22 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 23 | Even , well , almost even at the time when this last translation was doing , but certainly the time the bible was written . |
| 24 | ‘ He talked quite freely at a time when very few people did . |
| 25 | So , although we may wish that the monster would stop sprouting new heads , it is entertaining to look at some of the blind alleys of the past , most of which were investigated quite seriously at the time . |
| 26 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 27 | As he swivelled up he planted his most unabashed and flattering look on her , smiled slightly to animate the dimple in the scar , let his right hand trail towards his heart and , with a minute motion of his head ( his hat , of course , having been flourished off ) shook his long thick hair rather , he imagined , like a mane , breathing perceptibly heavily at the time so that with any sensitivity in her at all she would be in no doubt that her beauty had scored a palpable hit . |
| 28 | In the case of Durkheim , whose political sociology is less conspicuous , there is apparent nevertheless a strong commitment to republicanism ( most explicitly at the time of the Dreyfus affair ) as well as a cautious sympathy with the reformist wing of the socialist movement and a pronounced hostility to Marxist ideas of class conflict . |
| 29 | She most certainly at no time condoned what had happened to her daughter . |
| 30 | He was a little tight at the time , the father , and it upset dear Andrew . |