Example sentences of "of [noun] at the time " in BNC.

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1 NIHAT CILASUN : a 15-year-old boy , Nihat Cilasun was shot dead as he ran towards his home carrying bread , during a curfew announced after disturbances in the City of Cizre at the time of the Kurdish New Year ;
2 To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade .
3 Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking .
4 Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time .
5 Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster .
6 Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident .
7 Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time .
8 We ended up in a basement flat in Earls Court , which sounds grotty but of course at the time that was wonderful — a basement flat in Earl 's Court was the thing ! ’
9 Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks .
10 But his co-accused , Robert Henry ( 24 ) , of Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , denies murdering Mr McTasney and possession of firearms at the time of the shooting .
11 ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time .
12 The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely .
13 We had to fly all the way to the Danish coast or within sight of the Danish coast ; happily this was very low and the Germans did not appear to have our style of radar at the time .
14 Next I mention the only Member of Parliament at the time of writing to have resigned from a Government position as parliamentary private Secretary over the Maastricht issue , Roger Knapman , Member for Stroud .
15 He was an opposition member of parliament at the time .
16 It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house .
17 ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time .
18 In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 .
19 Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made .
20 ‘ But the proof of Elvis 's state of mind at the time of his death is there in his own words .
21 We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful .
22 Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action .
23 The jury has been told that both prosecution and defence will be calling expert witnesses to establish his state of mind at the time of the killing .
24 DESPITE his criticisms , among those who predicted the outcome of the election with astonishing accuracy ( and subject to hoots of disbelief at the time ) was Sir Tim .
25 The avoidance of confusion at the time of reading is not the only reason for arguing that children should be helped to become aware of what is actually on the page .
26 Both proposals provoked a considerable amount of opposition at the time ; the drama of the bitter , tragic , and prolonged struggle of the suffragettes , in particular , will endure as part of our cultural heritage .
27 Many of those who stayed behind , especially the adherents of the Bogomil faith , accepted Islam , and their descendants form the nucleus of the Islamic community which embraced 37 per cent of the population of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the time of the 1981 census .
28 ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his .
29 A large number of studies have been conducted with particular reference to eyewitness testimony in an attempt to decide what the effects of high levels of arousal at the time of a crime are likely to be on the testimony of a victim or witness .
30 Evidence of speed at the time of the offence can be established from the length of skid marks , the severity of any impact damage or from witnesses etc .
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