Example sentences of "[vb past] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 2 | As we reported at the time : |
| 3 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 4 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 5 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 6 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 7 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 8 | I write now as I found at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 10 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 11 | The lead isotope data can be explained if the U/Pb ratios in the sources are comparable to those observed for the lavas and the U/Pb fractionation occurred at the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |
| 12 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 13 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 14 | In the aftermath , the French government , headed at the time by Félix Gaillard , bowed to foreign pressure and agreed to accept American and British mediation over the incident . |
| 15 | Controversy erupted at the time over alleged juggling with export restrictions by Culture Minister Jack Lang and allegations were made about collusion between private art dealing and the State . |
| 16 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 17 | According to the laws we believed at the time , a hot body ought to give off electromagnetic waves ( such as radio waves , visible light , or X rays ) equally at all frequencies . |
| 18 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 19 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 20 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 21 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 22 | Were you to take after the Italians , you would use no more than oil and vinegar , added at the time you served the salad , even leaving each consumer to make up his or her own dressing . |
| 23 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 24 | ‘ I never noticed at the time . |
| 25 | The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution . |
| 26 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 27 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 28 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 29 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 30 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |