Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 2 | Instead , as the Financial Times reported at the time , Ford was making more money out of currency trading than it was from selling cars . |
| 3 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 4 | Is the existence of a supportive relationship before an event the critical factor , or can new supportive relationships mobilised at the time of the event be effective ? |
| 5 | This means that it can not be ruled out that new supportive relationships established at the time of a crisis might also sometimes be beneficial . |
| 6 | The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ . |
| 7 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 8 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 9 | His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis . |
| 10 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 11 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 12 | However , in spite of promises made at the time by the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , nothing has happened . |
| 13 | These portions of the mantle may now be melted preferentially in relatively undiluted form , away from the present ridge , by rising plumes or hot zones because they are enriched in low-temperature melting fractions incorporated at the time of U/Pb fractionation , and because of a lower geothermal gradient in areas of old thick lithosphere where the peridotite solidus is at greater depth . |
| 14 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 15 | Two boys searched for family jewels lost at the time of the Armada . |
| 16 | The losses were in line with forecasts given at the time of Wembley 's £37m rights issue in January . |
| 17 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 18 | The Gundovald crisis can thus be seen as a classic illustration of the difficulties raised at the time of the transfer of power from one monarch to another : the dispossessed and those who thought that their status was in question set about making contact with a new lord . |
| 19 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 21 | Although sources suggested at the time of Craythorne 's departure that marketing director Udo Kaul might roll his responsibilities into the brief of marketing manager Peter Townsend , Brackenbury has been appointed as head of all advertising functions , with an advertising coordinator , Roger Harris , reporting to him . |
| 22 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 23 | A fortnight ago , they wheeled in a surprise witness for deposition as to the representations made at the time — Margaret Thatcher herself . |
| 24 | Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce . |
| 25 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 26 | The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword . |
| 27 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 28 | Erm I would like to remind you of my objectives quoted at the time in th in the quality manual . |
| 29 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |
| 30 | but choice it is , choice of alignments with the social or political forces presented at the time . |