Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 2 | Practically nobody had a car in at the time . |
| 3 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 4 | He himself had founded this in honour of St Thomas of Canterbury , at whose tomb Henry II was doing penance just at the time of William 's capture at Alnwick . |
| 5 | They should be ignored in normal practice and disinfection should be assumed to have taken place only at the time a chemical has been applied and after the requisite contact time has elapsed . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) Make sure that the committee starts its business promptly at the time announced . |
| 7 | Try not to be rushed into a decision and particularly do not offer a job immediately at the time of the interview or commit yourself before you have seen all the candidates , even if you are very sure that you have seen the right person for the job . |
| 8 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 9 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |
| 10 | Me brother was deputy in at the time erm |
| 11 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |
| 12 | ‘ That is what Martin says ; he was some distance away at the time and was n't able to see who it was . ’ |
| 13 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 14 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 15 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 16 | Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead . |
| 17 | They were in bed together at the time , staring sadly at the ceiling . |
| 18 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 19 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 20 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 21 | Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ? |
| 22 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 23 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 24 | They claim that he became the Messiah only at the time of his baptism — that is , his anointment or coronation . |
| 25 | The Essenes , an extremely ascetic sect who withdrew to the desert region of Judaea near the Red Sea , appear to have originated in the middle of the second century BC at the time of the Maccabean revolt against the misguided Hellenizing reforms of the Seleucid ruler of Palestine Antiochus IV . |
| 26 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 27 | ‘ Changes could create a vacuum by setting up new authorities with no educational experience or tradition precisely at the time schools need maximum support for the introduction of their new management systems , ’ said the SPTC report . |
| 28 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |
| 29 | That 's right yeah , I was also er doing a bit for a guy in at the time . |
| 30 | You obviously made quite an impression personally at the time . |