Example sentences of "at [art] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers at the time amounted to several thousands on the SVR Gala , most of whom were at the northern Bridgnorth end of the line , enjoying rides behind 56014 and 59101 which was earlier named ‘ Village of Whatley ’ . |
| 2 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 3 | I first saw Genesis around 1973 and at the time knew their music very well . |
| 4 | His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis . |
| 5 | Few commentators at the time saw in the conference the beginnings of the Pacific age . |
| 6 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
| 7 | It was the Anglo-Saxons who adapted the pagan marking of bread with a cross ( which at the time represented the four seasons ) into the Christian symbol for the crucifix . |
| 8 | One could either argue that the lack of action required by the subject at the time prevented any memories from being encoded , or that the lack of aspects of the situation which were specific to that particular drive made it extremely difficult to actually retrieve a memory for it . |
| 9 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 10 | The Piper debts were paid in full , even although a severe fall in land values at the time caused his properties and other holdings to be sold for rock-bottom sums . |
| 11 | The findings drew attention to the contrast between the teacher-initiated models of ‘ group work ’ which at the time offered the only practical insights and guidance available in the literature ( e.g. Barnes and Todd 1977 , Tann 1981 , Biott and Clough 1983 , Slavin 1983 , Johnson et al . |
| 12 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 13 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 14 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 15 | ‘ The referee at the time said Southall was denying a goalscoring opportunity . |
| 16 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 17 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 18 | Entomologists at the time said that such an idea was ridiculous . |
| 19 | But nasty rumours at the time said she could have been helped in . |
| 20 | It was the kind of thing that children at the time said constantly in the playground . |
| 21 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 22 | A man who was in the car park at the time said he was forced to dive for cover . |
| 23 | A doctor from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital who treated Mr Hoad at the time said the spiral fracture of the arm was caused by a rotation force , a twisting of the arm . |
| 24 | Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship . |
| 25 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 26 | And I find that my father , who was old too , at the time substituted for the father and I have an excellent relationship with my son ! |
| 27 | To this extent , their enemies at the time perceived them as collaborators . |
| 28 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |
| 29 | A popular catch at the time ran : |
| 30 | It would be helpful if you could confirm by telephone whether you are able to attend for interview on the date and at the time indicated . |