Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 2 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 3 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 4 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 5 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 6 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |
| 7 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 8 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 9 | The Supreme Court could find no proof that Kopp had known this at the time she made the call . |
| 10 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 11 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 12 | Kate remembered those words , and the undertone of bitterness in her brother 's voice which she 'd found incomprehensible at the time . |
| 13 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
| 14 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |
| 15 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 16 | If we were correct in our hypothesis of Jesus 's marriage and children , or even if it were believed true at the time , it would do much to explain the agreed rapport between Constantine and the Roman Church . |
| 17 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 18 | Some of the deaths are blamed on polonium , an element whose presence during the accident was deliberately kept secret at the time because of its military sensitivity . |