Example sentences of "at the time have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 2 | ‘ All other bands at the time had fifteen syllable names , ’ say Marr . |
| 3 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 4 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 5 | However , another striking example of this type of mismatch arose when a student teacher CDL used a very simple program that asked children to estimate angles : it was simple to run and at the time had no documentation . |
| 6 | With the 1977 renegotiation , Branson argued , a new royalty had been set which Oldfield and his lawyer at the time had considered fair . |
| 7 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 8 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 9 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 10 | The ministers denied that de Klerk knew about the payments , arguing that prodecures at the time had not required him to know . |
| 11 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |
| 12 | at the time had you been strongly recommending it since eighty eight ? |
| 13 | As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy . |
| 14 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 15 | Next year the British candidate gained the throne of the Carnatic ; the directors of the French Company decided that Dupleix had been wasting their shareholders ' money , and in 1754 they recalled him , which must at the time have struck everybody as a prudent step to keep expenses down . |
| 16 | ‘ All the back-slapping and thanks at the time have been forgotten . |
| 17 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 18 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |