Example sentences of "at [adj] time that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds .
2 Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying ,
3 They argued at that time that pedestrian crossings of railways were perfectly safe .
4 It was at this time that man 's dawning awareness of it , stimulated his need to preserve his acceptance of the innate goodness of the evolutionary process , that is , his need to have a ‘ god ’ of some sort , that is to ‘ create ’ a God .
5 Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan .
6 She was going , at some time that summer , to follow the Piero della Francesca trail across the Mountains of the Moon to undoubtedly the world 's greatest small picture .
7 Now at one time that road as it started off there were terraced houses there erm little tiny terraced houses , and they were due to be demolished .
8 And that meant that Downes could not possibly have killed Kemp before that time , and Downes was going to make absolutely certain — as he did — that he was never out of sight or out of touch with his group — except for the odd , brief visit to the loo — at any time that afternoon or early evening .
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