Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The letters and casts are now in the National Museum of American Art , Smithsonian Institution , Washington , where Wunder was a Director at the time . |
| 32 | He decided to feature John , who was out of a job at the time . |
| 33 | This elegant 7,515 foot volcano , according to geologists was n't even a hummock at the time the Romans were building their roads and walls in Britain . |
| 34 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |
| 35 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 36 | ( 2 ) The proceedings to be taken on each of those sittings shall be as shown in the second column , and shall be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column , of the following Table — |
| 37 | ( 2 ) The proceedings to be taken on each of those days shall be as shown in the second column , and shall be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the third column , of the following Table — |
| 38 | As far as can be gauged , Wadhurst had a population at the time of about 1000 . |
| 39 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 40 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 41 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 42 | In Hart v Sangster 37 TC 231 , £2M was added to an account which had a credit at the time of approximately £20,000 . |
| 43 | His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up . |
| 44 | Although in some dioceses individual families came close to obtaining a monopoly over the episcopate , in others there was considerable rivalry which came to a head at the time of episcopal elections . |
| 45 | The girl , a virgin at the time , became pregnant as a result , the jury heard . |
| 46 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 47 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 48 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 49 | I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens . |
| 50 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 51 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 52 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 53 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 54 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 55 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 56 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 57 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 58 | And he was a student at the time and he had n't got a lot of money and he took what was it she said ? |
| 59 | Jeez Mark I was having a laugh and a beer at the time , not researching a new episode of Inspector Morse ! |
| 60 | One woman , a teenager at the time , had been offered a lift by him near Rannoch Woods , where the schoolgirl was killed . |