Example sentences of "[pron] at the time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |
| 2 | Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship . |
| 3 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |
| 4 | I noticed the attractive terracotta-tiled floor and another open fireplace which at the time housed the refrigerator . |
| 5 | I was more inclined to enjoy this type of drug as opposed to amphetamines , y'know , which at the time left you feeling a bit uncomfortable the next day . |
| 6 | It was the Anglo-Saxons who adapted the pagan marking of bread with a cross ( which at the time represented the four seasons ) into the Christian symbol for the crucifix . |
| 7 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 8 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 9 | The findings drew attention to the contrast between the teacher-initiated models of ‘ group work ’ which at the time offered the only practical insights and guidance available in the literature ( e.g. Barnes and Todd 1977 , Tann 1981 , Biott and Clough 1983 , Slavin 1983 , Johnson et al . |
| 10 | look at the US , which at the time seemed |
| 11 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |
| 12 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
| 13 | A classic study on short term verbal recall seemed to show that reading highly emotional words impairs memory , a finding which at the time seemed to support notions of repression . |
| 14 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
| 15 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 16 | In spite of local cooperative strength there was none in West Ham because of potential conflict with the West Ham Trades Council and Labour Representation Committee , which at the time controlled selection of Labour candidates . |
| 17 | His first challenge was to take charge of a nuclear research centre for C. A. Parsons , which at the time employed 350 graduates and trained scientists , but for which there was little work . |
| 18 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 19 | In 1977 , 22 per cent of female part-time employees were earning less than £15 a week , which at the time defined the boundary of non-employed for social insurance purposes ( that is , neither they nor their employers have to pay national insurance contributions ) . |
| 20 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
| 21 | It was built in 1874 at the expense of Lord Hotham , who at the time owned much of the parish . |
| 22 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 23 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 24 | Many of those who wrote about it at the time recalled Christopher Marlowes line , " Is it not fine to be a King and ride in triumph in Persepolis ? " |
| 25 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 26 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |