Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there issues in your relationship at the present time that you resent ? |
| 2 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 3 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 4 | In May 1947 the Joint Chiefs , while acknowledging that planning had to remain flexible , observed that " it appears at the present time that initial establishment of Allied forces in the Middle East is the most promising course of action " . |
| 5 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 6 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 7 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 8 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 9 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |