Example sentences of "at [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not common at that time to see a soldier at home in Britain wearing parachute wings , for despite the Parachute Regiment — a newcomer to the army 's Order of Battle — having mounted raids in France and Italy , and having taken part , with heavy casualties , in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns , airborne forces did not have a very noticeable public profile before the days of Normandy and Arnhem . |
| 2 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 3 | Brand new engine , introduced in nineteen eighty three , and we decided at that time to go metric . |
| 4 | What may not recur is the opportunity open to the Library Association at that time to act decisively not only against the ban but to act firmly in support of professional integrity . |
| 5 | It became impossible at that time to use words like ‘ proletarian ’ , ‘ working class ’ or ‘ Blue Col ’ . |
| 6 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 7 | A countervailing factor was the great tendency at that time to preserve secrecy over the College 's lectures and practice , lest practitioners ‘ steal ’ knowledge to their advantage and to the College 's detriment . |
| 8 | The decision of most lesbians with any political sensibility at that time to do this left many mixed gay organizations in a quandary . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ We only have one member of staff in at that time to open the doors , and on this occasion he overslept . |
| 10 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 11 | In spite of what Mr Kawawa said about the inevitability of capitalists ' misusing their press in a country like Tanzania , no plans were made at that time to take over the Standard . |
| 12 | So can you think of any er brochures or any companies which were around at that time to take advantage ? |
| 13 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 14 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 15 | It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school . |
| 16 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 17 | No , I just find that really difficult because they did n't have the means at that time to achieve it . |
| 18 | We decided at that time to follow Brosman 's erm regimen which er had had the lowest recurrence rate then reported . |
| 19 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 20 | In the late tenth century Sigeric archbishop of Canterbury went to Rome to receive his scarf of office , the pallium of lambs ' wool which was the mark of an archbishop ; and this seems at that time to have been an immemorial custom of very recent origin . |
| 21 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 22 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 23 | Robert Less ' Jump into Hell ( 1952 ) , with a story concerning paratroopers ordered to relieve a besieged fort , was arguably Hollywood 's only attempt at that time to portray French military involvement in any detail . |
| 24 | Though normally , in the Highlands , there is almost enough light at that time to write by , the storm-clouds that had thickened and threatened all day made it quite dark . |
| 25 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 26 | The French shared their reluctance at this time to sink their identities in a United States of Europe . |
| 27 | Moreover , the Swiss watchmakers were the best equipped in the world at this time to appreciate its sophistication . |
| 28 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 29 | ( I was glad at this time to remember that a woman in our own suburb had said to her once , ‘ I think you are the most attractive girl in the village ! ’ ) |
| 30 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |