Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 Then , with a quick glance at the time , she said , ‘ Time to go and have some lunch .
6 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 .
7 His Irish experiences led his lively imagination well outside the normal range of military thinking at the time .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment .
10 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 .
11 But , as luck would have it , I did n't have an opportunity to follow up my intention at the time .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 . ) .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The whole manor at the time of Ring Edward was worth 25 pounds and afterwards 6 pounds .
19 She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy .
20 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 .
21 While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy .
22 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 .
23 But it must be admitted that this is not a very strong distinction , for in Dudley and Stephens the jury also found that ‘ at the time of the act there was no sail in sight , nor any reasonable prospect of relief ’ ; and it would seem that if the law recognises necessity as a defence it should proceed upon the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time .
24 It will be noted that the decision in Papadimitropolous , in which it was held that a victim who mistakenly believed that she was married to the defendant at the time of sexual intercourse nonetheless consented to it , is overruled by the section .
25 The test for remoteness of damage was whether the kind of damage suffered by the plaintiff was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant at the time of the breach of duty .
26 The character of the rocks , and their setting in the past geography at the time when they accumulated , diagnoses the climatic setting in which the extinct fauna lived , and climate imposes certain restraints on possible modes of life .
27 As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms .
28 A few years ago , historians thought that Victor 19626 was the first commercially published electrical recording ; but in 1980 Robert W. Baumbach revealed in his book Look For The Dog that some earlier test recordings were eventually issued , which were not publicized because Victor had not signed the contract with Western Electric at the time .
29 And , I hazard a guess , more logged flying time than the sum total of all the senior officers in the Command at the time .
30 Robert Capa was president of Magnum at the time , and active in its head office .
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