Example sentences of "at the time [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 2 | This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves . |
| 3 | Apart from its own local trade in goods the Company covered some of its expenses by taking part in the carrying trade which flourished in the Indian Ocean , known at the time as the ‘ country trade ’ . |
| 4 | Three years later he was appointed child care officer in Moray and Hairn under director Fred Edwards , dubbed at the time as the ‘ greenhouse ’ of social work development in Scotland . |
| 5 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |
| 6 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 7 | One British reaction at the time to the greening of the Kremlin shows quite starkly how much political perceptions have changed in the short space since the autumn of 1988 . |
| 8 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 9 | The most significant and dramatic advance in biology was one which had only marginal relevance at the time to the study of the physical and chemical structure and mechanism of life . |
| 10 | It was quite unacceptable at the time to the British Communists . |
| 11 | Under Gift Aid there are no formalities at the time of the gift , just a cheque or cash gift to the charity . |
| 12 | The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland , formed at the time of the abolition of the Stormont parliament , represents those catholics , protestants , and others who disavow the twin alliance of Ireland but retain at least a practical attitude on sovereignty . |
| 13 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 14 | 1,607,000 pensions ( single people or couples ) in Great Britain were receiving income support at the time of the last available figures ( May 1989 ) . |
| 15 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 16 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 17 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 18 | When BP made its disastrous privatisation offering at the time of the crash , its profit forecast for the year ending 31 December , 1987 , computed in accordance with UK Gaap , was £1.45bn whereas its forecast based on US Gaap was 25 per cent lower at £1.1bn . |
| 19 | At the time of the acquisition insurance analysts said that AMP had aspirations to expand , and since it controls one third of the Australian life insurance market its opportunities were limited in that country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 22 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 23 | The girl , now 16 , was 14 at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 24 | They were but 11 at the time of the Falklands War and turning 14 as Gorbachev entered the Kremlin . |
| 25 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 26 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 27 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 28 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 29 | Similarly , if you take out a foreign currency mortgage where sterling is exchanged for foreign currency at the time of the purchase , and you subsequently want to repay the mortgage — you then have to pay over sterling to secure foreign currency with which to do so . |
| 30 | At the time of the last and only census of 1897 , there were more of them in the Vitebsk area than in any other part of the Empire except for Kovno , Vilno , and Grodno . |