Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 2 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 3 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 4 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 5 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 6 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 7 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |