Example sentences of "and at [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she had rudely stripped the corpse , and at no time during the action had she thought of that strip of white fabric … |
| 2 | The assault was stiffly resisted and at no time in their planning had the Germans calculated that the Belgians would do anything other than tamely submit . |
| 3 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |
| 4 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |
| 5 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 6 | And at a time of great economic uncertainty , this goal assumes increased importance , especially in an ageing population . |
| 7 | Such sites suit their conventional styles of building and marketing , and at a time of low demand would improve their cash-flow by capitalising on their extensive land holdings of farm land on the fringe . |
| 8 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 10 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
| 11 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 12 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 13 | Traditional Clan MacLeod lands included Harris and parts of Lewis , and at the time of his visit to St. Kilda in 1695 , the MacLeods of Skye held the title to that isolated archipelago ( Cooper , 1970 & op. cit . ) . |
| 14 | It was especially welcomed by the poor Islanders who were cleared from their crofts during the infamous Highland Clearances , and at the time of the potato blight many were said to have subsisted on it . |
| 15 | And at the time of the original British government decision in its favour , the design had suffered no serious accidents . |
| 16 | Nivelle Elite , who all sired some excellent stock , some of which was exported to Australia and at the time of writing , has taken Best in Show at Club Championship Show level . |
| 17 | Unemployment is a major affliction , and at the time of the riots 36 per cent of the workforce in Handsworth was out of work , while the figure for people under 24 years was 50 per cent . |
| 18 | Such an excuse exists if an accused ‘ damaged … the property in question … in order to protect property belonging to himself or another … and at the time of the act … alleged to constitute the offence he believed — ( i ) that the property … was in immediate need of protection ; and ( ii ) that the means of protection adopted … were … reasonable having regard to all the circumstances ’ . |
| 19 | Patients often have concomitant hypertension and at the time of diagnosis may already have angina and claudication . |
| 20 | For my money , and at the time of writing ( things can change rapidly ) this deck represents the cutting edge in compact disc reproduction at the price — an important caveat . |
| 21 | The 27 finalists are listed below and at the time of going to press they are poised for the grand final in London . |
| 22 | By 1989 the church was meeting in fortnightly celebrations in Raynes Park High School and at the time of writing the church has grown to a membership of 300 . |
| 23 | Anyone who has a heart will part with good money to hear that hook again , and at the time of going to press , many thousands already have . |
| 24 | She lived in a bungalow provided for her and at the time of Mr Farrington 's death was receiving £2.50 per week for her services and paying £1.50 a week inclusive of rates for the bungalow . |
| 25 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 26 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 27 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 28 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 29 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 30 | Gilmour et al measured maximum aortic acceleration using a suprasternal doppler probe in patients admitted with an acute infarction and at the time of predischarge exercise testing . |