Example sentences of "[noun sg] but at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
2 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
3 | Of course the message had to be wrapped in a fairly light romantic story but at the time of the opening there was concern that publicity was concentrating too much on the comedy and not enough on the ‘ timeliness ’ of the film . |
4 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
5 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |