Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 2 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 3 | ( In the same letter Leech referred to a man who ‘ was brought into the Infirmary this morning with violent concussion of the brain occasioned by a fall from the mail coach as it was passing through Harrowden , he was much intoxicated at the time the accident happened . |
| 4 | His flat was sparsely furnished at the time . |
| 5 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 6 | In order to give effect to the original intention of the Directive , the House of Lords held that the Regulations should be construed purposively and read as if after the words " immediately before the transfer " the following words were added " or would have been so employed at the time of the transfer if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in reg 8(1) " , ( ie for a reason in connection with the transfer ) . |
| 7 | PERHAPS feeling somewhat piscine at the time the organisers of North-East Norwegian Week insisted on announcing that something fishy would mark its start at the MetroCentre . |
| 8 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 9 | Little noticed at the time were large groups who missed out in the general prosperity : the blacks , poor farmers , lower-paid workers , and the old people living on small fixed pensions , who suffered particularly from one of the continuing problems of the economy inflation . |
| 10 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
| 11 | My paper was rather mathematical , however , so its implications for the role of God in the creation of the universe were not generally recognized at the time ( just as well for me ) . |
| 12 | It enabled Eliot to look not to the detested Unitarianism of his family , but towards a deeper , wider , yet also more personal ‘ rhythm ’ present , though scarcely recognized at the time . |
| 13 | It was bold because it conflicted with theories generally accepted at the time , theories that included the assumption that electromagnetic systems ( magnets , charged bodies , current-carrying conductors , etc. ) act upon each other instantaneously across empty space and that electromagnetic effects can be propagated at a finite velocity only through material substances . |
| 14 | Given any example of a classic scientific theory , whether at the time of its first proposal or at a later date , it is possible to find observational claims that were generally accepted at the time and were considered to be inconsistent with the theory . |
| 15 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 16 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 17 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 18 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 19 | Special consideration of alternative strategies , such as nutritional or surgical intervention , is warranted for children who are already stunted at the time of diagnosis and therefore need extra catch up growth . |
| 20 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 21 | It came from human tissues , and so could reasonably be expected to be harmless to them , unlike the synthetic antibacterial substances such as arsenicals and flavines which were the best known at the time . |
| 22 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 23 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 24 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 25 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 26 | One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant . |
| 27 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 28 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 29 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |
| 30 | The bones are still exposed at the time of writing this ( November , 1988 ) and they should provide additional data as time progresses . |