Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] at [art] time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill would have altered the definition of rape which at the time was classified in the Italian Penal Code as a ‘ crime against morals and custom ’ , so that it became a crime of violence against the person . |
| 2 | There were two female attendants on board who at the time were busy preparing beverages in the centrally situated galley . |
| 3 | They recorded one demo tape at Cargo Studios in Rochdale which at the time was being patronised by a legion of new wave bands spanning Joy Division to Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark . |
| 4 | In both cases it is open to others also to define the water as having something wrong with it : as one officer put it , having described an oil pollution which at the time was beyond his control : ‘ I prayed for rain and darkness ’ . |
| 5 | … the communication in a commercial context of information which at the time is regarded by the giver and recognised by the recipient as confidential , and the nature of which has a material connection with the commercial interests of the party confiding that information , imposes on the recipient a fiduciary obligation to maintain that confidence thereafter unless the giver consents to relax it . |
| 6 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 7 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |