Example sentences of "at the time it " in BNC.

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1 At the time it appeared to be the most plausible perhaps .
2 It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island !
3 The best scheme , by far , is to do what is normally done , ie. , write a bit image file in terms of the resolution available at the time it is created .
4 At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life .
5 At the time it was an embryonic sabotage unit .
6 The decision top management took has been vindicated , but there was some criticism , particularly from City analysts , at the time it was taken .
7 At the time it was revolutionary approach .
8 I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this .
9 At the time it was not available in the UK , and its critical acclaim came mainly from Continental motoring journalists .
10 He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt .
11 At the time it appalled the traditionalists ; now it is winning them round with its logical elegance , nostalgic glamour and atmosphere of cocktails on a Cunard liner .
12 It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock .
13 At the time it was insisted that virtually all Iraqi and Kuwaiti money in the West had been identified and frozen .
14 The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough .
15 by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place .
16 You see , even at the time it was only a sign .
17 Sometimes rap was difficult to defend because at the time it was all dicks and gold .
18 I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’
19 Grief will find an expression at some time , and if it is not allowed at the time it occurs , then it will be much more difficult to deal with when it is triggered by an event in later life .
20 But a spokesman for NatWest said : ‘ When the reference was prepared it was provided in good faith and was reasonable at the time it was prepared .
21 They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet .
22 The great virtue of the N & P service is that the customer hears the price at which he is dealing , at the time it happens .
23 At the time it looked like a masterstroke , a piece of breath-taking audacity .
24 But although the case , and particularly the sentence , shocked the public at the time it was soon forgotten .
25 This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before .
26 At the time it was poorly lit , with no heating , and it was soon being equally definitely described as ‘ dirty ’ .
27 At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps .
28 It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event .
29 We 're used to it now , of course , but at the time it seemed rather exciting .
30 It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present .
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