Example sentences of "[prep] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 2 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 3 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 4 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 5 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 6 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 7 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 8 | After much furore , his results were published in Nature , along with , in a development unheard of at the time , a criticism of his data by one of the paper 's referees , the chemist Walter Stewart . |
| 9 | What reputation did the have with other areas of at the time ? |
| 10 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 11 | it would have gone to either the sales manager or the regional managing director of the Eastern region of at the time |
| 12 | No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time . |
| 13 | This record is retained permanently , so if a specimen of rock is put into the detecting instrument , and various careful measurements made , it is possible to find out what the Earth 's magnetic field was like at the time when the basalt cooled from its original molten state . |
| 14 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
| 15 | It sought to reinvigorate the Church and enhance its spiritual life by bringing back into its service much of the ritual and many of the vestments , ornaments , etc. , that had been dispensed with at the time of the Reformation , BH 12 . |
| 16 | The objects of their fantasy tend to be someone they are with at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 17 | The regiment I served with at the time was normally based at Osnabruck in Germany . |
| 18 | I 've already stated I do not recall er the person I voiced that concern with at the time |
| 19 | She wondered what ‘ period ’ he had been enraptured with at the time he 'd been here . |
| 20 | In medieval times an effigy of the saint was met and escorted into the town by crowds of people , but this was frowned upon at the time of the Reformation and the effigy was replaced by a man dressed in white robes . |
| 21 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 22 | These are defined in section 61 as ‘ goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract of sale is made . ’ |
| 23 | ( a ) The meaning of description If goods sold by description are defined in terms of being identified or earmarked , then in the case of a contract for the sale of specific goods , non-correspondence with description ought logically to be impossible since s61(1) of SGA 1979 defines " specific goods " as including those identified and agreed upon at the time of the contract of sale . |
| 24 | Less radical than the abolitionist , but perhaps more realistic , the reductionist seeks a minimalist prison system ( which it might be argued England , with a rate of 28 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants , was not far from at the time of Brockway 's article ) within which reasonably decent standards might be maintained . |
| 25 | He has been convicted of car crimes 16 times and had one charge pending at the time of our discussions three months ago . |
| 26 | One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill-tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time . |
| 27 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 28 | For suddenly she was remembering those enigmatic remarks he 'd made , which she 'd paid barely any heed to at the time . |
| 29 | but people who can afford to pay for it will be , will be made to at the time |
| 30 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |