Example sentences of "at the time [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 2 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 3 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 4 | At the time women 's social services had over seventy centres including hostels for the homeless and mentally ill , mother and baby homes , provision for the elderly , children 's homes and community homes for difficult teenagers . |
| 5 | Discounting the cost at present value , to give a more realistic estimate of the loss at the time decisions are made , emphasizes the importance of deferring births : earlier childbearing leads to a loss of £84,000 ; having the two children later loses £62,000 ( quite apart from the career implications ) . |
| 6 | The aliquots are withdrawn from specified depths at the time intervals shown for a full analysis of the fine particle content . |
| 7 | From the large numbers that have been found in this country ‘ key rings ’ must have been both popular and fashionable items : they also served a practical purpose for at the time pockets were not known . |
| 8 | ‘ We need the right pressure at the time places at the right time , ’ said BA director Tim Godfray . |
| 9 | ‘ Changes could create a vacuum by setting up new authorities with no educational experience or tradition precisely at the time schools need maximum support for the introduction of their new management systems , ’ said the SPTC report . |
| 10 | Four additions were made to each of the tracheal preparations at the time points indicated by dots . |
| 11 | C 5 -unmethylated phasmid DNA was incubated with S-adenosyl-[ 3 H ] -methionine and Dcm or Dcm/Cys177Ser ; aliquots of the reaction mixture were removed at the time points indicated and DNA precipitated with 20% aqueous TCA . |
| 12 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 13 | The legal charge was executed by the Hammonds , who were at the time transferees under a transfer executed by Mrs. Steed as attorney for the registered proprietor . |
| 14 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 15 | At the time empires were normal enough ; it was nationalism that was unusual and , if it did develop , it might easily break Charles 's empire into fragments because of the absence of linguistic or geographic unity . |