Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
2 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
3 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
7 | That MP was the minister of the previous administration having responsibility at the time for the administration of civil aviation . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | So there is a negative segregation against difficult or disturbed sufferers , taking place at the time of the assessment . |
12 | Patients taking sulphasalazine at the time of onset of relapse continued on this drug . |
13 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
14 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
15 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
16 | 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 . |