Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | It is understood that the companies set out in Schedule 2 , are , other than ABC GmbH and ABC Corp , wholly owned subsidiaries of ABC and will remain so at the time of the acquisition of ABC . |
| 3 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 4 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 5 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 6 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 7 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 8 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 9 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 10 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 11 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 12 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 14 | The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations . |
| 15 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 16 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 17 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 18 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 19 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 20 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 21 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 22 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 23 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 24 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 26 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 27 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 28 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 29 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 30 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |