Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at the time " in BNC.

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1 Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time .
2 Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together .
3 Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ;
4 Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common .
5 This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak .
6 An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 .
7 ‘ Splendid , splendid , ’ he had said cordially and automatically at the time .
8 It said that inherently bad foundations and faulty construction meant that the cost of maintaining the old building for any length of time ‘ must be necessarily large ’ , and even at the time of his examination the building was undergoing further repairs .
9 So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs .
10 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
11 At that point ( and indeed at the time of writing , in 1991 ) the Home-School Working Group was still in existence , and still apparently moving towards the eventual drafting of a policy document .
12 The reaction of my careers adviser at University when I confessed my inclination was gloomy but perhaps at the time realistic : ‘ That 's all very well , but what are you going to do when you grow up ? ’
13 But already at the time Attlee was speaking the situation was changing again .
14 But even at the time there were words of caution from those involved in the project .
15 Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' .
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