Example sentences of "[vb past] at the time [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 2 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 3 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 4 | … Whatever be the true view with regard to the act or neglect , I think that the appellant is entitled to say that the respondents ' ‘ default giving rise to the action ’ existed at the time when he suffered his injuries . |
| 5 | But because the scandal broke at the time when one of the most popular pastimes in Yugoslavia was hunting for the scalps of former politicians , the moment the British press reported the involvement of Yugoslav diplomats , Tito 's family and the Yugoslav National Army , the silver became interesting . |
| 6 | In his novel The Human Age , D. B. Wyndham Lewis postulates the theory that after death , as we stand on that other shore , at the gate of eternity , we will each one assume the shape and form which we had at the time when we best realised our essential selves . |
| 7 | Hayling recognized at the time how the project had been damaged . |