Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
2 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
3 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
4 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |
5 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |