Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the chief causes at the present time was the increase in interest rates , especially for the self-employed . |
| 2 | He said no one working for the Post Office at Middleton at the present time was in any way part of the investigation . |
| 3 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 4 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 5 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 6 | This courtesy might not be necessary , strictly speaking , but the fact that All the President 's Men were in South Africa as guests of the SARB at the same time was not a help . |
| 7 | Under the Green Bill , the Government was introducing integrated pollution control , which the NRA endorsed , but at the same time was removing the independent monitoring of the system . |
| 8 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 9 | The result of the two intelligence services , army intelligence , the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's Special Branch , and various odd freelancers all having a go at the same time was , not surprisingly , a total disaster . |
| 10 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 11 | Treated as a wayward child who at the same time was exceedingly precocious , he was considerably indulged as long as he continued to sow confusion in Rommel 's back yard . |
| 12 | For example , the index of the information system was computerised in 1986 and at the same time was expanded , and made to encompass extensive cross-referencing ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 13 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 14 | The water car transferred at the same time was not numbered . |
| 15 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 16 | A counterpart to Campbell in America at the same time was Horace Bushnell ( 1802–81 ) , with his The Vicarious Sacrifice ( 1866 ) and Forgiveness and Law ( 1874 ) , in which some of the same emphases appear . |
| 17 | Another Old Stopfordian in the news at the same time was Admiral Sir George Back : Stockport journalist Mr. J.D. Lovelock had travelled to Canada to visit some of the places associated with that intrepid explorer . |
| 18 | I often missed Constanza , but not being with them both at the same time was easier . |
| 19 | The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 . |
| 20 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | A further example of national information about which local managers were unable to act came with the expanding of the National Diploma level of BTEC in schools : when it was shown that there did not have to be an exclusive choice of BTEC and A levels and that to offer both at the same time was not only permissible but also helpful , the manager was able to make new local choices . |
| 22 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 23 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 24 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 25 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 26 | Er but Brothers er took time to get over that and er but at , at the same time were using their sales representatives to go abroad and to gain work you know , for the commercial aspect of the company . |