Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our budget er is at the present time overspent er something of the order of £70,000 , and we 're required by the Health Authority and by government , er to manage within our existing cash limited budget . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 3 | Section 16(1) in the unamended form applicable at the relevant time stated : ‘ Where a term of a contract purports to exclude or restrict liability for breach of duty arising in the course of any business or from the occupation of any premises used for business premises of the occupier that term … ( b ) shall … have no effect if it was not fair and reasonable to incorporate the term in the contract . ’ |
| 4 | Her husband admired her serious-mindedness , and at the same time saw that her absence of humour held comic promise for his act . |
| 5 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 6 | How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original ? |
| 7 | He had introduced her to physical passion , and at the same time ignited a fire in his own sensual , earthy Taurean nature that had proved impossible to quench . |
| 8 | Chris Bird , exploration team leader of the Atlantic Frontier Programme said : ‘ The success of the survey has accelerated the whole ‘ 204 ’ exploration and appraisal programme and at the same time enabled us to obtain additional data on the area . ’ |
| 9 | The CNAA at the same time agreed a ‘ reciprocal transfer ’ of credit with the Open University , and related to , and negotiated with , a variety of other bodies in higher education . |
| 10 | However much both sectors might underline their commitment to high-quality education for students and other values of higher education as a whole , the struggle to define and remove boundaries at the same time led to uncertainty and ambiguity , tension and even ‘ ill-will ’ between the sectors . |
| 11 | And cultural modernism , in challenging such identity , at the same time challenged the very structure of the German state . |
| 12 | The word was said with such vehemence , yet at the same time sounded so funny , that he almost laughed . |
| 13 | The same paternalistic attitude probably emanated from some of the more indigenous landed gentry of the district , who at the same time harboured misgivings over the flood of workers into the quiet township . |
| 14 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 15 | The Yugo ( nee Zastava ) , built in Yugoslavia , managed to escape the Iron Curtain car jokes but at the same time escaped , completely , the attention of press and public . |
| 16 | The granite pillars and gendarmes kept the sun from warming us , but at the same time emphasised the tenuous nature of the couloir . |
| 17 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 18 | The orchestra , extremely democratically-run and independent-minded , was bruised , strained and a little anxious about its standards after clashes with the great maestro , who at the same time had spent less and less time with it . |
| 19 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 20 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 21 | No one retained a broadcasting role and at the same time enjoyed a good salary . |
| 22 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 23 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 24 | Cabrera 's possible detection of a monopole last year aroused a great deal of excitement , but at the same time raised the question of why he had succeeded , where the many other experimental searches had failed . |
| 25 | PAISLEY Chief Office staff shed several pounds during a sponsored slim — but at the same time raised many more for the town 's Accord Hospice . |
| 26 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 27 | Feeling somehow challenged , Rory sent him one of her teasing , provocative smiles , but at the same time experienced a strange surge of protectiveness . |
| 28 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 29 | Pressure from the STUC and the Scottish Labour Party over the 1960s had helped to channel considerable regional aid to Scotland , which partly reversed the country 's relative economic decline ( Begg and Lythe , 1977 ) but did not eliminate high unemployment , and at the same time brought recognition of a ‘ Scottish dimension ’ to economic policy . |
| 30 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |