Example sentences of "know at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The microbes known at the time did not pass through filters , so the nature of the material was obscure . |
| 32 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 33 | As Eric Fawcett recalls , ‘ It was a polymer so unlike the polymers known at the time that no one could envisage a use for it . |
| 34 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 35 | The system , known at the time as réduction François , was not accepted immediately in the Champagne community , despite being held in great esteem elsewhere and , ironically — which was most damaging of all to the Champagne industry — used to further the production of German sparkling sekt . |
| 36 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 37 | SBC Securities Ltd , known at the time as SBCI Savory Milln Ltd agreed to underwrite the cash alternative and rights issue , a potential liability of £56m . |
| 38 | But little of this was clearly known at the time , and so some observers concluded that Paul VI secretly connived with the minority . |
| 39 | Apart from its own local trade in goods the Company covered some of its expenses by taking part in the carrying trade which flourished in the Indian Ocean , known at the time as the ‘ country trade ’ . |
| 40 | His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Fourthly , since the return for holding a bill to redemption is known at the time of issue , bills are fixed-interest securities . |
| 43 | The regulations against which the Opposition are praying concern backdated entitlement to benefit where there has been official Department of Social Security error or where relevant evidence was not known at the time of the original DSS decision . |
| 44 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 45 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 46 | These can not be known at the time the decision is to be made and a means of stating what is known and what is assessed of the influence of future events on the commercial performance of the product , permitting comparisons between options , is needed . |
| 47 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 48 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 49 | It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time . |
| 50 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 51 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 52 | It was known at the time that there was going to be opposition to them and it was an absolute recipe for debate after debate , council meeting after council meeting , committee meeting after committee meeting . |
| 53 | When you feel worthless , useless — and do things often without knowing at the time why you have . |
| 54 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 55 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 56 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 57 | ‘ You approached Miss Needham , repeated Markby evenly , ‘ whether or not you knew at the time that was her name , and you asked her to sign . |
| 58 | Yet those elements you mention were true to the life most young people in particular knew at the time . |
| 59 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 60 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |