Example sentences of "at [adj] time [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
2 | Otherwise , in the event of a claim the insurance company may insist on receiving the signature of both husband and wife before monies are paid out , and the husband 's whereabouts at that time may not be known . |
3 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
4 | It was never even mentioned afterwards and I reckon 99 percent of players at that time would have sacked me . |
5 | The carpenter 's benches were well lit by rooflights ; some of the tools used at that time would probably not be found today . |
6 | The dose commitment on emerging from the shelter after two weeks would be no less than 1700 rads and the daily dose at that time would be 46 rads . |
7 | According to local history , this field at that time would have been the playing fields of Mr Burton 's private school , which eventually became Victoria Park . |
8 | This was never more threatened from the right than in the years before 1914 and a leader who had respected constitutional niceties at that time would have driven them out of the system where they could have been far more dangerous . |
9 | A little arrogance , yes , some petulance , but nothing extra that went beyond what her position in that place and at that time would have encouraged in her . |
10 | At that time would it have been a custom to have had the coffin in the house ? |
11 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
12 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
13 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
14 | Students at that time could apparently choose when they wished to be examined ( after the continental custom ) as there was no fixed examination schedule as we know it . |
15 | Later still he got an oil engine ; and people at that time could buy both coal and oil from the miller . ’ |
16 | However , Coleman 's reported disclaimer at that time should be remembered : ‘ I am come to learn and not to teach ’ . |
17 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
18 | Only those who come from that place at that time can judge . |
19 | Anyone over 18 and earning more than £9 a week at that time will probably be entitled to a small graduated pension . |
20 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
21 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |
22 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
23 | If a person is given permission to enter a building at a particular time , then entry at another time may render him a trespasser . |
24 | He had a passionate love of music and in another world at another time might have made a fine musician , but there , held in that place at that moment , there were other plans , other duties , other paths . |
25 | And there is no doubt that the visit of Cheney and Powell to the Gulf convinced them that to fight a land war at this time would risk over-straining the support among the American people . |
26 | Anybody who dreamt of surrendering that basic safeguard at this time would be doing the gravest disservice to current and possibly to future generations in Britain . |
27 | A spokesman said that a price hike at this time would be ‘ inappropriate ’ . |
28 | On Nov. 15 the Kuwaiti government-in-exile endorsed the Saudi view that an Arab summit at this time would be pointless . |
29 | As the US Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on 22 October 1951 : The security interests of the United States at this time would be greatly benefited if the British Commonwealth of Nations could achieve once more a state of political and military solidarity under strong and effective leadership by the United Kingdom ; failing this , wholehearted support of United States military policies must be obtained from the several members of the British Commonwealth through other means . |
30 | Help at this time may help you or the person you look after to remain at home as confidence is slowly regained in managing in a new situation . |