Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at the 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The men he had killed were only electronic ghosts , but they had seemed real enough at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't think Chris and the band know each other well enough at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Even , well , almost even at the time when this last translation was doing , but certainly the time the bible was written . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was a little tight at the time , the father , and it upset dear Andrew . |
| 23 | Balding shrugged : ‘ I was actually away at the time , but I suspect the ground was n't what we thought it was . |
| 24 | That said it was going very strongly at the time and there was much speculation amongst linesiders as to how No 7819 Hinton Manor would tackle the 1 in 52 climb to Talerddig summit . |
| 25 | I could n't explain it very well at the time and I still ca n't . |
| 26 | Although it did n't sell very well at the time it is significant because it was the first to be published in English using the naming system which we use today . ’ |
| 27 | erm We were playing very well at the time , Henley were n't ; they 've improved out of all proportion since Christmas and we 've been up and down , we 've played some really good games and one or two not so good . |
| 28 | He had n't been listening very hard at the time . |
| 29 | Philosophy , medicine and the arts flourished in an enlightened atmosphere which existed scarcely anywhere else at the time . |
| 30 | I did n't take this too seriously at the time . |