Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 2 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
| 3 | It should therefore be emphasized that the first objective within the UGIX project is to improve access to existing GlS by converting the current function-orientation of the native system interface to a task-oriented interface usable by a spatially aware user ( see Fig. 7.2 for a taxonomy of interfaces for ARC/INFO at the time of writing in 1990 ) . |
| 4 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 5 | He was lost for words at the time , and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private . |
| 6 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 7 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 8 | The case will be keenly remembered by the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) , who was the principal Law Officer for Scotland at the time . |
| 9 | NIHAT CILASUN : a 15-year-old boy , Nihat Cilasun was shot dead as he ran towards his home carrying bread , during a curfew announced after disturbances in the City of Cizre at the time of the Kurdish New Year ; |
| 10 | To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade . |
| 11 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 12 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 13 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster . |
| 14 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident . |
| 15 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 16 | We ended up in a basement flat in Earls Court , which sounds grotty but of course at the time that was wonderful — a basement flat in Earl 's Court was the thing ! ’ |
| 17 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 18 | But his co-accused , Robert Henry ( 24 ) , of Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , denies murdering Mr McTasney and possession of firearms at the time of the shooting . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 20 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 21 | We had to fly all the way to the Danish coast or within sight of the Danish coast ; happily this was very low and the Germans did not appear to have our style of radar at the time . |
| 22 | Next I mention the only Member of Parliament at the time of writing to have resigned from a Government position as parliamentary private Secretary over the Maastricht issue , Roger Knapman , Member for Stroud . |
| 23 | He was an opposition member of parliament at the time . |
| 24 | It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house . |
| 25 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 26 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made . |
| 28 | ‘ But the proof of Elvis 's state of mind at the time of his death is there in his own words . |
| 29 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 30 | Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action . |