Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was hailed as historic at the time — as a giant contribution towards a peaceful settlement of the Middle East . |
| 2 | Mr Guerin 's lawyer said he had advised Mr Guerin to say as little as possible for the time being . |
| 3 | I was aware that the impending birth of AC2 Herriot 's child did not influence the general war strategy but I still wanted to be as near to Helen as possible at the time . |
| 4 | Everyone was keen to work hard at seeing as much as possible in the time given — including some places not normally open to the public , for which Martin Randall had made special arrangements . |
| 5 | All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching . |
| 6 | Under these conditions your anxiety will be greater , as you are keen to earn as much money as possible in the time allowed . |
| 7 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 8 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 9 | In-flight meals and/or refreshments as appropriate to the time of day . |
| 10 | Although not explicitly regarded as such at the time , this equated closely to the comparison stage of the SSM , as described in the following sections . |
| 11 | The 29 booksellers and stationers responding to the CBI survey were among the disappointed retailers , with 59% reporting sales volume down on a year ago and 57% describing the volume of sales as poor for the time of year . |
| 12 | What matters is the status of the party as unassisted at the time when he incurred the costs in the proceedings which he seeks to recover . |
| 13 | An interesting feature that has emerged recently is the number of patients who are newly diagnosed as diabetic at the time of their myocardial infarction ( Oswald et al , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |
| 15 | Far from it , for even after the influx into parliament of the " hard-faced men " of 1918 the Law government of 1922 included as many old-established peers as any of the time . |
| 16 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |