Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They also understand about that at the time Kenny left he was obviously under a lot of the stress . |
| 2 | Erm I 'm not sh w w well would you really have , have , have worried about that at the time ? getting out of feudalism then why exactly how you 're gon na go from there . |
| 3 | In a simple agricultural community , such as that at the time of the Pentateuch , this meant each family being able to own land . |
| 4 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 5 | Right , erm , did we not have a fair amount of discussion about this at the time , before |
| 6 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 8 | That was the basically the problem and people were n't aware of that at the time . |
| 9 | Many of those who are now on the Opposition Front Bench were deeply ashamed of that at the time and remain deeply ashamed of it . |
| 10 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 11 | Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born . |
| 12 | The inescapable fact is that I did n't want to be a woman , although I was unaware of this at the time . |
| 13 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 14 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
| 15 | While Barth had by no means worked through all the implications of this at the time of his controversy with Brunner , the disagreement which came into the open in 1934 can be seen in retrospect as foreshadowing the shape of his own future theology . |
| 16 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 17 | The island and its neighbour Warbah have been claimed by Iraq in the past and may well have been among Iraq 's objectives in mounting the invasion a year earlier , although there was no strong evidence of this at the time . |
| 18 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 19 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 20 | He is , I must add , all of seventeen at the time . |
| 21 | The term ‘ schoolgirl mother ’ strictly refers to those under the age of 16 at the time of conception . |
| 22 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 23 | Of course it is easy to argue now , with the benefit of hindsight , that Dennis was doomed anyway , but it did n't appear like that at the time . |
| 24 | I was too agitated to notice anything like that at the time . ’ |
| 25 | It had not seemed like that at the time . |
| 26 | It did n't really seem like that at the time . |
| 27 | I did not see it like this at the time , but arched |
| 28 | It was like this at the time of Mum 's suicide , you police just would n't leave me alone . ’ |
| 29 | In 1926 38.3 per cent of the population were Ukrainian as against 37.9 at the time of the 1923 census . |
| 30 | ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it . |