Example sentences of "at the time of " in BNC.
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| 31 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 32 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 33 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 34 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 35 | At the time of her death she was working on a novel . |
| 36 | The girl , now 16 , was 14 at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 37 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 38 | Borrowings largely relate to NGC , which had £80m of debt at the time of takeover and which finances its rapid growth from cash flow . |
| 39 | They were toddlers at the time of Watergate , not yet 10 when Mrs Thatcher came to power , Nato decided to introduce cruise and Pershing missiles and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan . |
| 40 | They were but 11 at the time of the Falklands War and turning 14 as Gorbachev entered the Kremlin . |
| 41 | At the time of his death he had just completed a second , much fuller edition , to be published in 1990 . |
| 42 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 43 | Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of Sao Paolo , was in Belgium at the time of her death and would have liked to have said her Requiem Mass . |
| 44 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 45 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 46 | FERRANTI was warned in strong terms at the time of the takeover two years ago of the dangers of buying International Signal and Control . |
| 47 | Similarly , if you take out a foreign currency mortgage where sterling is exchanged for foreign currency at the time of the purchase , and you subsequently want to repay the mortgage — you then have to pay over sterling to secure foreign currency with which to do so . |
| 48 | A former British government official who was in Bonn at the time of Operation Ward declined to comment on the authenticity of the material , but told The Independent yesterday : ‘ It is obvious that if attacks are going on , you should try and get informers . ’ |
| 49 | At the time of the last and only census of 1897 , there were more of them in the Vitebsk area than in any other part of the Empire except for Kovno , Vilno , and Grodno . |
| 50 | At the time of Yakovlev 's visit , the state-controlled grain organizations still controlled 45 per cent of all trading turnover in goods and cash , as opposed to 12 per cent through private hands , but Yakovlev realized that the balance was changing quickly in favour of the Nepmen . |
| 51 | In 1926 38.3 per cent of the population were Ukrainian as against 37.9 at the time of the 1923 census . |
| 52 | The official exchange rate ( at the time of writing ) is around 50 Kcs to the pound . |
| 53 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 54 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 55 | By mid-1989 the centre in British politics , split between the renamed ‘ Democrats ’ , the remaining Social Democrats , and ‘ green ’ environmentalists , seemed weaker than at any time since the leadership of the old Liberals by Jo Grimond at the time of ‘ Orpington man ’ in the early 1960s . |
| 56 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 57 | In the winter of 1981–2 , at the time of the Crosby by-election , the Conservatives had been terrified by SDP threats to their support in south and east England and suburbia generally . |
| 58 | In 1972 , at the time of the Saltley flying pickets mobilized by the young Scargill , the miners had held the upper hand ; not so this time around . |
| 59 | As in the autumn of 1981 , it seemed to be losing its way , with doubts over government support for British Leyland , ministers attacked over repeated strikes by secondary school teachers , and criticisms also over Britain 's support for President Reagan at the time of bombing raids on Libya . |
| 60 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |