Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 2 | If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests . |
| 3 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 4 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 5 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 6 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 7 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 8 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 9 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 10 | Such a notice may be served where an odour has occurred and is likely to recur on the same premises , the advantage being that unlike an abatement notice there is no need for an odour to exist at the time of service . |