Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 34 | Small mammal faunas in the fossil record provide one of the principal methods of interpreting the ecology or habitat existing at the time the fossils were preserved . |
| 35 | A confession will now be excluded if it is the result of ‘ oppression ’ or if it is the consequence of ‘ anything said or done which was likely , in the circumstances existing at the time , to render [ it ] unreliable ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 36 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |
| 37 | Where liability for negligence is excluded by a notice , the reasonableness of the exclusion depends on whether it would be fair and reasonable to allow reliance on the notice having regard to the circumstances existing at the time liability arose , or would have arisen . |
| 38 | It is difficult now for many people to grasp , let along appreciate , the depth and strength of the feelings of loss , defeat , and outrage which mining communities felt at the time . |
| 39 | Dannii said at the time : ‘ We do n't see a lot of her because our schedules clash really badly . |
| 40 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 41 | Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement . |
| 42 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 43 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 44 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 45 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 46 | Yet , however serious the crisis seemed at the time , and for all the interest which it has subsequently generated , it was essentially a passing thunderstorm . |
| 47 | However , in spite of promises made at the time by the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , nothing has happened . |
| 48 | These portions of the mantle may now be melted preferentially in relatively undiluted form , away from the present ridge , by rising plumes or hot zones because they are enriched in low-temperature melting fractions incorporated at the time of U/Pb fractionation , and because of a lower geothermal gradient in areas of old thick lithosphere where the peridotite solidus is at greater depth . |
| 49 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 50 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |
| 51 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 52 | In slang used at the time , to open your budget meant to speak your mind . |
| 53 | It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton , which was the only other particle known at the time , and that would be the end of theoretical physics . |
| 54 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 55 | Q : What were you and your husband doing at the time ? |
| 56 | However , major defects existing at the time of the sale are another matter . |
| 57 | Shigeru Tokinoya , who was in charge of textbook screening at the time Professor Ienaga 's book was banned , said : ‘ All of our corrections should have been upheld … |
| 58 | Will the rain come at the time the crops need it ? |
| 59 | Sterling said at the time , ‘ In my opinion , no one has yet caught the real spirit of Alice on the screen . |
| 60 | Two boys searched for family jewels lost at the time of the Armada . |