Example sentences of "[been] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 2 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 3 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 4 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 5 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 6 | Charlie had stopped by to speak to Josie as he 'd said he would , but Lucy had n't been present at the time . |
| 7 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 8 | He had been sceptical at the time , but she 'd been quite right , for he had suddenly understood the story . |
| 9 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 10 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 11 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 12 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 13 | Mark had been twelve at the time and beset by emotional turmoil . |
| 14 | As a long-term contributor to the feature we have always taken pains to ensure that the rates we have quoted have been correct at the time of the survey ( usually December ) . |
| 15 | In R v Love the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of a director of a printing company who had been absent at the time a print order for obscene books was accepted , and who had no personal knowledge of the contents of those books . |
| 16 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 17 | It had been enjoyable at the time , but after it was over it had left a disagreeable taste in the mouth . |