Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Deputy Speaker that strong sympathy expressed at the time of the last debate on these matters was approved overwhelmingly by the Labour party conference last October and I state that for the record less there be any misunderstanding about our position on the issue of voting systems . |
| 2 | What would the position be if there was an exceptionally strong gale blowing at the time of the original road accident ? |
| 3 | Later came the Farmans , aptly named ‘ cages à poules ’ , and the Caudrons , of which a French flyer remarked at the time that between these and the current German types ‘ there was all the difference between a lorry and a Rolls Royce ’ . |
| 4 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 5 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 6 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 7 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 8 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 9 | The crew were involved in low level tactical training exercises at the time of the accident . |
| 10 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 11 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 12 | I seem to remember him doing some inane arse wiggling at the time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Michael made a good recovery , and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement . |
| 15 | Primary shock occurs at the time of surgery , secondary more than 14 hours after surgery . |
| 16 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 17 | These records provide invaluable information compiled at the time of the event concerned , and are often illustrated with photographs , leaflets and other memorabilia . |
| 18 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |
| 19 | As a British prime minister remarked at the time , people had never had it so good . |
| 20 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 21 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 22 | If the C M I does n't lead to this kind of balance then it can have this sort of effect and get rapidly fatal tuberculosis occurring at the time of the primary infection . |
| 23 | Two days later a new political movement was formed joining the defunct PSU and the Nouvelle Gauche ( a dissident communist movement established at the time of the 1988 presidential elections and led by Pierre Juquin — see p. 35979 for his candidature ) . |
| 24 | He appears to have had one son and one daughter living at the time of his death , which occurred in Cambridge 7 December 1720 . |
| 25 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 26 | He still had n't had any chart hits at the time and in fact did n't until ‘ Fame ’ . |
| 27 | A She could , but she would almost certainly then forfeit her title of Royal Highness and Princess , and probably any income obtained at the time of the divorce . |
| 28 | Where the business association takes the form of a partnership , a writ or originating summons can be served on any one or more of the partners ; at the principal place of business of the partnership within the jurisdiction on any person having at the time of service the control or management of the partnership business there ; or by sending a copy of the document by post to the firm at that principal place of business . |
| 29 | Leaving the town on the south side is the Devil 's Staircase , a military road constructed at the time of the Jacobite rebellion , and not at all as fearsome as the name implies . |
| 30 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |