Example sentences of "at the time [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such socialising had significance not just at the time but for the future , for table-fellowship was , in Jesus ' thinking , an anticipation of that great feast which will mark the consummation of the Kingdom . |
| 2 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 3 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 4 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 5 | Charles Short , the surgeon , was Mayor of Bedford at the time and as such , the presiding coroner : |
| 6 | The question of economic benefits of science points to a concern with the character of the economy at the time and to the importance of considering the demise of the attempts to implement a science curriculum ‘ as practice ’ and the success of the science curriculum ‘ as fact ’ in the context of changes in Victorian capitalism . [ … ] |
| 7 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 8 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 9 | He still had n't had any chart hits at the time and in fact did n't until ‘ Fame ’ . |
| 10 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 11 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 12 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 13 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 14 | The break-up of the Bretton Woods system , at the time and in the form in which it occurred , to a large degree forced an easy money regime on the rest of the system , and thereby fuelled the speculation that in turn fuelled the commodities boom . |
| 15 | Did , did you at the time or in the thirties did you have any involvement with the Unemployment Claims Union or anything like that ? |