Example sentences of "[noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be multiplied manyfold in its unpleasantness , if you are a woman emptying your bladder at the time . |
| 2 | The actual speed at the time is usually far too slow to allow for any use of the airbrakes , but there is plenty of room ahead for a safe landing . |
| 3 | The rate at which the angle is changed must depend on the speed at the time , and this has to be judged because there is insufficient time to check the ASI . |
| 4 | Evidence of speed at the time of the offence can be established from the length of skid marks , the severity of any impact damage or from witnesses etc . |
| 5 | Their interest became centred around sympathetic affiliation to the Comintern and the creation of a United Communist Party , the two main objects of Communist tactics at the time . |
| 6 | Then , with a quick glance at the time , she said , ‘ Time to go and have some lunch . |
| 7 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 8 | His Irish experiences led his lively imagination well outside the normal range of military thinking at the time . |
| 9 | Er , I moved the original motion , and the thinking at the time was , after a lot of discussion , that eight one as it appears on the agenda , to maintain the estate at around it 's level was the correct decision . |
| 10 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
| 11 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 12 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 13 | But , as luck would have it , I did n't have an opportunity to follow up my intention at the time . |
| 14 | If their intention subsequently changes , that is irrelevant and the property will pass in accordance with their intention at the time of making the contract . |
| 15 | Large quantities of frozen food are nowadays delivered regularly to stores and the Service must ensure that the temperature of the stock at the time of delivery is correct before it goes into the cold store . |
| 16 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 17 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 18 | Following from this it was therefore axiomatic that knowledge of environment was time-dependent and the environmental perception at the time of decision-taking could be very significant . |
| 19 | Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story . |
| 20 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 21 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 22 | Alt and associates , in their study of the electorate at the time of the February 1974 election , argue that it is easy to exaggerate the extent to which voters are politically illiterate , unfamiliar with issues , and unable to identify the policy stands of the parties . |
| 23 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 24 | The whole manor at the time of Ring Edward was worth 25 pounds and afterwards 6 pounds . |
| 25 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 26 | Absolutely well it does seem , it does seem a , a football of a , of another era certainly , but erm , I mean , I think he brought a breath of fresh air into football at the time . |
| 27 | It may be poetic irony , but I was attending a convention in Hong Kong and working resolutely for the cigarette manufacturers at the time of my infarct . |
| 28 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 29 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |
| 30 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |