Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at the time [art] " in BNC.

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1 He has this right in relation to goods which the defendant owns at the time the sheriff receives the writ .
2 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 .
3 Will the rain come at the time the crops need it ?
4 In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only .
5 Traditional options are contracts written by stock exchange market makers entitling their clients to buy or sell quoted shares in some stock in the future at a price fixed at the time the option contract is purchased .
6 Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere .
7 In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting .
8 Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills .
9 I can see nothing in section 61 to suggest that these trust provisions apply only if the trust existed at the time the deposit was made .
10 Russian press reports said at the time the CIS vessel suffered damage to its sail , periscope and bridge .
11 Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma .
12 The court may annul a bankruptcy order if at any time it appears to the court that the order ought not to have been made ( on any grounds existing at the time the order was made ) or the debts and expenses of the bankruptcy have all been either paid or secured to the satisfaction of the court since the making of the order ( s 282(1) ) .
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