Example sentences of "at the time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I must admit I did n't know at the time exactly what her flying weight should be . |
| 2 | As a result , many women conceive at the time most convenient to their lives and seek satisfactory rather than ideal medical facilities . |
| 3 | The final climax of the old regime may be seen in the twenty-year reign of Pius XII ( 1939–58 ) , a pope at the time most profoundly revered . |
| 4 | Well I 'd like to say to that that er no Marx did n't specifically erm erm look to Britain or er Germany , only in the sense that they , at the time most advanced and he , he reckoned that er ideas of communism would spread only in the most advanced countries who in course of time would influence other countries . |
| 5 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 6 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 7 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 8 | It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . |
| 9 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 10 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 11 | At the time when Poland has its first Solidarity prime minister , Hungary is to have free elections , and Britain is fed up with Mrs Thatcher 's authoritarian style , Labour should be seen to take democratic issues seriously . |
| 12 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |
| 13 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 14 | Naturally Marx started by explaining the historical mechanism and inner working of the social system which dominated the condition of the working class at the time when he wrote on capitalism . |
| 15 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 16 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 17 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 18 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 19 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 20 | This would certainly be the case for someone like Gordon Cooke , the Free Presbyterian minister of Rasharkin , who found himself chairman of the ‘ parent ’ branch of the officially constituted Protestant Unionist Party largely because he was a strong supporter of Paisley 's political line and a leading evangelical in the Bannside area at the time when Paisley decided to stand against O'Neill . |
| 21 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 22 | It is at the time when someone can say , ‘ This time last year … ’ |
| 23 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 24 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 25 | This reactive approach is exemplified by realising , at the time when problems arise , that they can not be solved without adequate information . |
| 26 | To break up the Union now would diminish our influence for good in the world , just at the time when it is most needed . |
| 27 | At the time when he was posted missing , she was in a fever of anxiety about her own family who were in the concentration camp at Treblinka , and even then being sent to the gas chambers . |
| 28 | The character of the rocks , and their setting in the past geography at the time when they accumulated , diagnoses the climatic setting in which the extinct fauna lived , and climate imposes certain restraints on possible modes of life . |
| 29 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 30 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |