Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , of course , been a continuous feature of Britain 's involvement in Europe that each new step , seen at the time as ‘ technical ’ , ‘ consequential ’ , ‘ of no real account ’ , is later declared to be the point at which the pass was sold . |
| 2 | There is a double stillage with casks marked with the time as well as the date . |
| 3 | SBC Securities Ltd , known at the time as SBCI Savory Milln Ltd agreed to underwrite the cash alternative and rights issue , a potential liability of £56m . |
| 4 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 5 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 6 | This decision was criticised at the time as unnecessarily ambitious , both by visiting American engineers ( who were unused to Britain 's highly integrated planning approach ) and by the press , but the BEA 's experience was to prove the critics wrong . |
| 7 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |
| 8 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |