Example sentences of "was at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 2 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 3 | The following are also void : marriages between parties who are not respectively male and female ; marriages between persons , either of whom is under the age of 16 ( see p. 43 ) ; and a polygamous marriage entered into outside England and Wales , if either party was at the time domiciled in England and Wales ( for domicile , see pp. 61–3 ) . |
| 4 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 5 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 6 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 7 | In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass . |
| 8 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 9 | Nichols encountered difficulties in staging a play on what was at the time , circa 1967 , a difficult and sensitive subject although the difficulties were compounded by the frank dialogue . |
| 10 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 11 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 12 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 13 | But fusion was at the time buried beneath a blanket of secrecy : not open to the usual processes of review that attend research available for the scientific community to read the scientific papers and arrive at their own interpretation of the results . |
| 14 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 15 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 16 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 17 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 18 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 19 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 20 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 21 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 22 | The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr of NBS SRM987 was and the 143 Nd/ 144 Nd of the La Jolla Nd standard was at the time of these analyses . |
| 23 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 24 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 25 | Drafted by the Conservative Research Department , it was presented by William Whitelaw , the Shadow Home Secretary , and David Howell , formerly a junior Minister who had worked under Whitelaw at the Northern Ireland Office and was at the time a Front Bench spokesman on Home Affairs . |
| 26 | Gordon Reece , a public relations consultant and personal adviser to Margaret Thatcher , was at the time Director of Publicity at the Central Office . |
| 27 | ( f ) Section 32(2) ( b ) , dealing with the search of anyone arrested for any offence , arrestable or otherwise , allows the police to enter and search the premises where the suspect was at the time of his arrest or immediately before for evidence relating to the offence for which he was arrested . |
| 28 | Sud ( now Aerospatiale ) was at the time a partner with Dassault and this is why the type certificate for the aircraft states " Dassault-Sud " . |
| 29 | With these on-board sensors and airframe structural modifications , s/n 157 ( N166RS ) was at the time the most expensive Falcon in the world , costing 2.5 million dollars . |
| 30 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |