Example sentences of "what at the time " in BNC.

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1 No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money .
2 How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence .
3 I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night .
4 He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons .
5 A Parisian-born chef of the early nineteenth century brings to perfection — or to what at the time is considered perfection — a grandiose dish of sole in a white wine and cream sauce with a ceremonial garnish of freshwater crayfish , fried gudgeons , oysters , mushrooms and prawns impaled on ornamental skewers .
6 The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time .
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