Example sentences of "at [adj] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 2 | At that time it was very much more of a family firm than it is now . |
| 3 | At that time it was the idea of looking out over fields of swaying poppies and cornflowers that appealed to the Prince . |
| 4 | ‘ At that time it was SOS Pompey and the club were said to have only a week to survive . |
| 5 | At that time it was not a case of wanting to return to work but having to . |
| 6 | Even at that time it was known , from dye tracing experiments , that the caves in East Kingsdale , particularly King Pot , were linked to Keld Head . |
| 7 | At that time it was very similar to the modern Devon in conformation and colour : Garrard 's engraving in 1800 showed a dark red Devon ox standing 152cm at the withers , but the bull was 135cm and the cow 119cm — similar to the ‘ Suffolk Polled ’ of the time but smaller than the Hereford and Sussex ( each about 142cm/130cm ) . |
| 8 | At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life . |
| 9 | At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females . |
| 10 | Fortunately , at that time it was possible to combat complaints with the argument that it was necessary to control noise and nuisance . |
| 11 | At that time it was a thriving community with a blacksmith 's shop , bakery , joiner and tailor 's , to name a few . |
| 12 | A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work . |
| 13 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 14 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 15 | At that time it got around that he was a straight-faced , humourless character , which Wegerle regards as a slander . |
| 16 | I really wanted to meet people I felt far more at ease with and at that time it was the still the punk era and I met a lot of other people who were into that . |
| 17 | Today , devoid of sundry aid pegs , it stands at hard E2 ; and at that time it was another leap in climbing standards . |
| 18 | He liked the look of the aircraft and at that time it was a type that nobody else was flying in the UK . |
| 19 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 20 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 21 | At that time it was not realised that the investigating team were already in possession of the evidence necessary to determine the cause of the accident and it was entirely fortuitous that the body that was removed from under the pathologist 's nose was not one containing vital evidence . |
| 22 | At that time it had commanded fine views : south all the way to the river ; north and west over the lush pastures of the region towards the tiny village of Hampstead . |
| 23 | At that time it had n't made up its mind whether it was going to deliver an immediate response to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation 10 announcement — and ship systems later on in the year — or make a big splash in the Autumn with deliveries pretty much straight after . |
| 24 | The wooden panel was tampered with in the last century , probably while it was housed in the Museo dell'Accademia : at that time it was fitted with a hinged iron surround so that it could be swivelled . |
| 25 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 26 | At that time it was not necessary to produce a birth certificate in support of the application . |
| 27 | Certainly at that time it was accepted that a political career was likely to be an advantage for a barrister aspiring to a judgeship , though it was important that his seat should be safe , as no government would wish to run the possibility of diminishing its strength in the House . |
| 28 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 29 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 30 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |