Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until that late date , the Cecils successfully opposed any move to enclose the fields , for reasons which were never fully disclosed at the time . |
| 2 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 3 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 4 | The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter … |
| 5 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 6 | Ife , a city to the west of the River Niger and , according to Yoruba tradition , the centre where the world was created , was occupied at the time of Igbo Ukwu . |
| 7 | Indirect Rule was not , as was claimed at the time , just a pragmatic response to circumstances , or a way of breaking the natives in gently to the rigours of civilized living . |
| 8 | The last atrocity had been claimed at the time by the Ulster Freedom Fighters with the explanation that it was in retaliation for a bomb which the Provisional IRA had exploded in an army bus in England seven days earlier , killing twelve men , women and children . |
| 9 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 10 | In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired . |
| 11 | The TVOR was not installed at the time of the accident . |
| 12 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 13 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 14 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
| 15 | People will be interviewed at the time of taking a photograph and later after they have seen the results in order to ascertain just what they think they have ‘ captured ’ photographically . |
| 16 | London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast . |
| 17 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |
| 18 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not surprising therefore that here in Britain the recovery that nearly all forecasters expected at the time of the Budget in March has still not become established . |
| 20 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 22 | She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time . |
| 23 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 24 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 25 | Leyland 's own collection of oriental porcelain was dispersed at the time of his death and , apart from ten or so pieces , the shelves had remained empty until now . |
| 26 | But due to other commitments and the very constricted nature of the passage , it was not pursued at the time . |
| 27 | The case , not reported at the time , was the first documented of human victims of this phenonemum in Britain . |
| 28 | Instead , as the Financial Times reported at the time , Ford was making more money out of currency trading than it was from selling cars . |
| 29 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 30 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for March fell to 1.17 from the revised 1.19 figure for February — a figure of 1.18 was reported at the time . |