Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 3 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 4 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 5 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 6 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 7 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 8 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |
| 9 | If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests . |
| 10 | The imagined Philip ceases to exist at the time of the older critic 's death ; the real tribute to Mr Noble was Thomas 's finest book , inscribed to his memory . |
| 11 | Such a notice may be served where an odour has occurred and is likely to recur on the same premises , the advantage being that unlike an abatement notice there is no need for an odour to exist at the time of service . |
| 12 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 13 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 14 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 15 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |
| 16 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |