Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 3 | Therefore , by dismissing Peres at the time he did , Shamir made certain that he would retain the premiership whatever the outcome of the Knesset vote . |
| 4 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 5 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 6 | of the 16 students not seeking employment at the time of the survey , 14 planned to carry on writing up their theses , and two had arranged extended visits overseas . |
| 7 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 8 | He 's a fine man , your dad , they 're well matched , " It 's great it happened , " the woman in the shop said , buying leeks at the time . |
| 9 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 10 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 11 | That MP was the minister of the previous administration having responsibility at the time for the administration of civil aviation . |
| 12 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 13 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 14 | Moreover , in Schroeder Lord Reid said that a consequence of examining validity at the time when the contract was signed made it unnecessary to deal with the reasons why the respondent ( originally the plaintiff ) now wished to be freed from it . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 16 | So there is a negative segregation against difficult or disturbed sufferers , taking place at the time of the assessment . |
| 17 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 18 | By the use of this technique , it will be possible to gain precise information about the nature of reading difficulties at the time of comprehension rather than relying on inferences made from memory performance . |
| 19 | Patients taking sulphasalazine at the time of onset of relapse continued on this drug . |
| 20 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 21 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 22 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
| 23 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 24 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 25 | If patients are receiving sulphonylureas at the time of admission there is no contraindication to their continuation , although one should be wary of the very long-acting chlorpropamide as hypoglycaemia is more likely . |
| 26 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 27 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 28 | In such circumstances it can not in my opinion be enough for the applicant simply to rely , without more , upon lack of evidence of his presence within the territory of the requesting state at the time of the commission of the relevant offence . |