Example sentences of "[adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 2 | The TAGH solution ( 9 ml ) was made up fresh at the time of the experiment and infused by the tail vein from 20 ml hyperdermic syringes mounted in horizontal syringe pumps set to deliver 3 ml/h . |
| 3 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 4 | But then , in the early '70s , Bristol was very raffish : the port connection made it a terribly druggy city , which to a student seemed very exciting at the time . ’ |
| 5 | For Kings Norton they had been ‘ exciting at the time ’ , and ‘ always amicable ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps what we read as brute coincidence , silky irony , or brave , far-sighted modernism , looked quite different at the time . |
| 7 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 8 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 9 | Either I was wrong at the time or the author has dramatically improved . |
| 10 | Not of course that the comparisons seemed in any way apposite at the time . |
| 11 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
| 12 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 13 | It was n't clear at the time . |
| 14 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 15 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 16 | Was n't clear at the time what the circumstances were . |
| 17 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 18 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 19 | I do n't think Zbigniew 's marriage to Tatyana was going too swell at the time . |
| 20 | One of Oggie 's sons , Toby , or not Toby ( well , I thought it was funny at the time … never mind … ) is very disobedient . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 22 | Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh . |
| 23 | I thought that was quite funny at the time . |
| 24 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 25 | Perhaps the work-load is high at the time , looking at the map and the ground for possible clues as to where they are , looking for signs of possible lift to climb in , together with all the other little worries involved in a field landing . |
| 26 | They offer a good deal if interest rates , high at the time of purchase , subsequently fall . |
| 27 | Unrealized at the time , 1968 was It 's highpoint . |
| 28 | Both were illiterate at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
| 30 | One may be aware of feelings , sexual ones for example , that one is not able to conceptualise as sexual at the time . |