Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] time of " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 32 | Of the 16 patients , three died at the time of their first hospital admission and five died subsequently . |
| 33 | British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war . |
| 34 | Even the consistent opposition to any form of appeasement maintained by Ernest Bevin , Walter Citrine and Hugh Dalton , wavered at the time of the Spanish Civil War in the direction of " non-intervention " . |
| 35 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 36 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 37 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 38 | President Scalfaro on July 30 described Scotti 's action as a sign that " factional interests " had been allowed to take priority , coming as it did at a time of national crisis . |
| 39 | The question is : In saying ‘ I meant … ’ , when one has been misunderstood , is one saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ ? |
| 40 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
| 41 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 42 | The book appeared at a time of great political and religious excitement and caused a considerable stir . |
| 43 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 44 | All the accommodation in this leaflet is WTB verified at the time of going to press ( January 1990 ) . |
| 45 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 46 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 47 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 48 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 49 | Since neither [ defendant ] had at the time of the removal of the goods from the shelves and of the label switching assumed all the rights of the owner , there was no appropriation and therefore no theft . |
| 50 | Once we have worked out with you how much you will pay towards your care , the Department has the right to continue to base this on the amount of money you had at the time of your assessment . |
| 51 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 52 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 53 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 54 | Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive , said at the time of the announcement ‘ The market place is exceptionally difficult just now , but we saw very early on that it was tough — in fact the last three months of our financial year were the toughest experience in my business life . |
| 55 | I said at the time of Robert Maxwell 's death that he 'd left a trail of wreckage across the city . |
| 56 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
| 57 | Sherlock wrote at the time of the calling of the Convention , " there are no Contentions so fierce as those about Religion … |
| 58 | Motor cycling was also popular at Brooklands and the great John Cobb was synonymous with the circuit and his lap record of 230.80 kph ( 143.44 mph ) in a 24-litre Napier-Railton stood at the time of the circuit 's closure . |
| 59 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 60 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |