Example sentences of "at [art] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 2 | One British reaction at the time to the greening of the Kremlin shows quite starkly how much political perceptions have changed in the short space since the autumn of 1988 . |
| 3 | I recently purchased what I believed , at the time to be a Perkins 4203 diesel engine together with the appropriate conversion kit . |
| 4 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 5 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 6 | The first photographic record dates from December 1961 , when film-maker Bruce Brown shot Phil Edwards — considered by many at the time to be the best surfer in the world — on a six-to eight-foot west swell . |
| 7 | The resulting document , the Bourdillon Report , proved at the time to be one of the most useful that had appeared about the bookstocks of British public libraries , since it contained studies of existing provision and a series of recommendations on acceptable standards for provision in the future . |
| 8 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |
| 9 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 10 | In interviews though , I said I was on the dole because it was very trendy at the time to be on the dole as far as the music press was concerned . |
| 11 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |
| 12 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 13 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 14 | Sounds a little crazy , but it was quite a relief at the time to be able to switch my miseries around . |
| 15 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 16 | Profumo unfortunately succumbed to the charms of a Miss Christine Keeler who — casting my mind back — appeared at the time to be an attractive little thing , and whose very appearance could be regarded as a warning to every husband anxious to preserve his marriage . |
| 17 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 18 | That penalty was reduced at the time to six months . |
| 19 | In a separate development earlier in the month Prime Minster Kang Young Hoon apologized to the National Assembly on July 3 for the government 's misuse of 55,200 million won ( equivalent at the time to nearly US$64,000,000 ) from the 1987 budget to assist the ruling party 's campaign in the 1987 presidential elections . |
| 20 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 21 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 22 | The most significant and dramatic advance in biology was one which had only marginal relevance at the time to the study of the physical and chemical structure and mechanism of life . |
| 23 | Faulty concrete containers , thought at the time to be the source of pollution , were removed in 1973 and the site was declared decontaminated in 1979 . |
| 24 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 25 | It was quite unacceptable at the time to the British Communists . |
| 26 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 27 | ‘ You were ill at the time to some extent , but you were a businessman and must have known what you were doing , paying substantial sums of money yourself . ’ |
| 28 | It was quite traumatic at the time to be sick or unwell in such a situation but you did your very best and succeeded in putting it all right . |
| 29 | Alternatively , a courier will smuggle often millions of pounds at a time to a country where banking secrecy offers greater protection . |
| 30 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |