Example sentences of "at the time of " in BNC.
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| 61 | Britain as a committed member of the European world was not a wholly credible concept at the time of the Madrid summit in June 1989 , or in the Strasbourg conference that November . |
| 62 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 63 | By the time of local elections , it was apparent the SDP of ‘ claret and chips ’ mould-breaking fame at the time of the Limehouse Declaration in 1981 was disintegrating . |
| 64 | He had been the head of Labour 's Research Department at the time of the 1945 election . |
| 65 | Montgomery ( a very outdated figure at the time of his death in 1976 ) had been Britain 's last military hero , and he seemed as remote as Wellington or Marlborough . |
| 66 | While there were periods of internal stress , notably the emergence of the various racial , Irish , and student troubles of the late sixties , and the concern over the alleged ‘ ungovernability ’ of the unions at the time of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in the late seventies , Britain was a relatively stable society internally throughout these forty-four years . |
| 67 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 68 | Large quantities of frozen food are nowadays delivered regularly to stores and the Service must ensure that the temperature of the stock at the time of delivery is correct before it goes into the cold store . |
| 69 | If Inheritance Tax is 40% at the time of your death , normally £4,000 ( 40% ) would be payable in tax . |
| 70 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |
| 71 | He mentioned the possibility of sacramental confession at the time of Lent . |
| 72 | The widowed mother , the residence in north London , and the daily travel to work in the London bank were all pad of Eliot 's own experience at the time of the composition of most of The Waste Land . |
| 73 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 74 | At the time of its introduction it was hailed as a measure which placed pensions above party politics and was accepted by the Conservative spokesmen of the day . |
| 75 | Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation . |
| 76 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 77 | This policy , which was very much stimulated by the convertibility crisis in 1947 , was tightened up even further at the time of the next sterling crisis in 1949 . |
| 78 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 79 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 80 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 81 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
| 82 | At the time of his trip he was such a novelty that he was featured in several Reykjavik newspapers , and treated with great hospitality wherever he went . |
| 83 | Firearms , unknown to the Indians at the time of the conquest , seemed a frightening manifestation of the supernatural , for they ‘ fled out of fear when there was a blare of trumpets , the roar of arquebuses and artillery ’ . |
| 84 | The International Commission of Jurists criticised the 1968 Act at the time of its passing as being in violation of international law . |
| 85 | Leland claimed his company was worth over $16 million : 3407 Lincolns had been built and 241 remained in the plant at the time of the sale . |
| 86 | At the time of going to press , Renault UK had yet to agree prices with France for the Clio range . |
| 87 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 88 | Excessive stress can damage the heart and it might not be a coincidence that cardiac disorders are most frequent at the time of waking or the hours just after . |
| 89 | As the material becomes hotter , it regains the capacity to flow which characterised it molten state at the time of its installation . |
| 90 | Much earlier , at the time of ‘ the Doc 's insanity ’ in 1923 , Lewis had written to Greeves , ‘ Arthur , whatever you do never allow yourself to get a neurosis . ’ |