Example sentences of "and [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 2 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 3 | The informants contacted during the snowball sampling procedure were aged between 18 and 32 at the time of interview . |
| 4 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 5 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 6 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
| 7 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 8 | And this at a time when resistance is likely to be lowered . |
| 9 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 10 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 11 | ( And this at a time when the Unionists could install their own government whenever they wished , through their control of both Houses . ) |
| 12 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 13 | The President of the Law Society calculated in 1980 that , with some 44,000 solicitors in practice , the number of young people actively trying to qualify was 15,000 , and this at a time when work was stagnating . |
| 14 | The secrets of the period , hidden and unknowable at the time , have been revealed in the historical conclusion of 1914 . |
| 15 | They go out in covnoys of 10 and 12 at a time and they 'll have no officers or senior NCO 's accompanying them |
| 16 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 17 | Reasonableness is thus judged in the light of circumstances known and foreseeable at the time the contract was made . |
| 18 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 19 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 20 | They are particularly important — and problematic at a time when government policy seems to be introducing a serious tension into the local administration of the education service . |
| 21 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 22 | This remark , which struck me as silly and offensive at the time , was to be recalled later . |
| 23 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 24 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 25 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 26 | The Maguire Seven were Anne Maguire and Patrick Maguire ; their sons Vincent Maguire and Patrick Joseph Maguire ( respectively 17 and 14 at the time of their sentencing ) ; Patrick 's brother-in-law Guiseppe Conlon ( Gerard Conlon 's father ) , who died in prison in 1980 ; Anne 's brother Sean Smyth ; and a family friend named Patrick O'Neill . |
| 27 | All were aged between twenty and thirty at the time of interview , and all were mothers . |
| 28 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 29 | The following week James Butlin reported that she had been ‘ exceedingly foul in her linen and verminous at the time of her admission ’ . |
| 30 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |