Example sentences of "at the time this [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time this was an unfashionable attitude . |
| 2 | At the time this was the longest journey which could be made by tram in London and owing to rapid trolleybus conversions , the last occasion on which it was possible . |
| 3 | At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers . |
| 4 | At the time this was barely spelt out , but as the 1960s progressed , the Treasury began to introduce from America a range of new budgeting and cost benefit techniques that can be seen as the means of implementing this objective . |
| 5 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 6 | But a defence lawyer suggested that at the time this was the normal practise in football , and Steve White agreed . |