Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 2 | As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time . |
| 3 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 4 | The element of ‘ mens rea ’ — that is to say , what was actually in the accused 's mind at the time of the assault — is of utmost importance . |
| 5 | Debbie Kaye , Gedge 's girlfriend at the time , worked hard on the band 's behalf and became a manager-type figure . |
| 6 | Among the other girls tested for the part of Amy were 23-year-old Judy Geeson , who had already played a number of cock-teasing roles , and Joie Gould , an English secretary who was Peckinpah 's girlfriend at the time . |
| 7 | Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story . |
| 8 | Erm , but generally , ye I mean cos Eileen and I go to a we nearly always go somewhere like Carriages or you know , somewhere Italian which is , you know , it might , it all depends on what Jim 's eating at the time . |
| 9 | It was a command that would result in the slaying of actress of Sharon Tate ( who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski 's child at the time of her fatal stabbing ) , coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her lover Wojiciech Frykowski , delivery boy Steven Earl Parent and Hollywood hair stylist to the stars , Jay Sebring . |
| 10 | Among them were Mr Reed , Nicholas Wells , who had put the issue together at County , and Martin Gibbs , head of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , County 's stockbroker at the time , although he has since retired . |
| 11 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 12 | The plaintiff 's case is that despite the difficulty with the landlord 's consent at the time the contracts were signed , it was made clear to them by Mr at this stage that that ought to be a formality and no one anticipated to expect this . |
| 13 | The song , featuring several different sections , was a fine summary of the band 's sound at the time . |
| 14 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 15 | An example of such a condition would be if , to the buyer 's knowledge at the time the contract was made , the seller was not the owner of the goods . |
| 16 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
| 17 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 18 | The Bulgarians wanted Guentchev to join their squad for the match with Austria in Vienna , but Town 's schedule at the time was too hectic . |
| 19 | Harry had derided Ockleton 's theory at the time . |
| 20 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 21 | ‘ Having established that the larger skeleton was that of a female , I set about making an estimate of the subject 's age at the time of her death . |
| 22 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 23 | They took full advantage of the general liberalisation , that was the government 's policy at the time , to fight against the constraints imposed by the labour system . |
| 24 | These are all experiences we have had that tell us about the body 's state at the time , and we do not have difficulty in interpreting them . |
| 25 | Who was Neville Chamberlain 's secretary at the time of the Munich Agreement ? |
| 26 | He is suing Jocelyn Timothy Thomas , a solicitor who held his late brother 's will at the time of his death , for negligence to the tune of £4 million . |
| 27 | According to a witness accompanying Constantine 's army at the time , the vision was of the sun god — the deity worshipped by certain cults under the name of Sol Invictus , the ‘ Invincible Sun ’ . |
| 28 | For four hours they chanted ‘ Down with ( Yefrem ) Sokolov ’ — the republic 's party chief — and cheered calls for the prosecution of those running the republic 's government at the time of the disaster . |
| 29 | Just which ‘ caves ’ and why ( it would n't stop the partying which takes place on the embankments ) is anyone 's guess at the time of writing . |
| 30 | The owners of the Durham and Northumberland collieries showed their appreciation by presenting Davy with a set of silver plate worth £2500 ( a miner 's wage at the time was £50 a year ) at a testimonial dinner on 11 October , 1817 . |