Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 2 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 3 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 4 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 5 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 6 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 7 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 9 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 10 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 11 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 12 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 13 | His father Arthur , who had played for Blackburn Rovers , Derby County and Portsmouth , worked there at the time . |
| 14 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 15 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 16 | The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME . |
| 17 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
| 18 | Clinical investigations produced evidence that 75% of the women questioned who developed cellulite , did so at a time of hormonal change . |
| 19 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
| 20 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 21 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |
| 22 | I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours — particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time . |
| 23 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 24 | I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’ |
| 25 | I said so at the time , if you remember . |
| 26 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |
| 27 | And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative . |
| 28 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |
| 29 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
| 30 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |