Example sentences of "[was/were] at time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If indigence were the sole criterion , then the category would include Oliver Goldsmith , the young Samuel Johnson , Christopher Smart and numerous other poets who enjoyed the distinct privilege of a university education but were at times besieged by duns . |
| 2 | Although he obviously trains hard , the English management were at times left frustrated by his preference for playing over preparation . |
| 3 | Some other aspects of the anti-Modernism of the new fiction , it must be conceded , were at times more chauvinistic than reasoned . |
| 4 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 5 | We ran into some bad weather on the way , with heavy rain followed by thick fog , which was frustrating because we were at times up near the permanent snowline , and had occasional glimpses of birds like rough-legged buzzard , with Lapland bunting and red-throated pipits by the roadside . |
| 6 | Not all members of commissions could be stifled , however , and debates were at times acrimonious . |
| 7 | Lady Laura Riding , speaking in support of the proposals , declared that if prostitutes were at times ‘ liable to be harried ’ , that was the consequence of their own actions . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the Cuban revolution , the Communists , forced to contend with Castroite , Maoist and Trotskyist dissenters , all of whom advocated armed struggle , were at times uncertain how to respond to the rise of guerrilla activity in their own countries . |
| 9 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 10 | The two brothers were at times united in their hostility to Chilperic 's son Chlothar II , and at one moment they reduced the latter 's kingdom to territory between the Seine , the Oise and the sea . |
| 11 | Like the less diplomatically suave authority , Theodore Haecker , whom Eliot was at times glad to call on , the author of Four Quartets and editor of The Criterion required us to take Virgil as , above all , the author of the Fourth Eclogue , the pagan poet who prophesied Christianity , whose vision of human history must accordingly be seen as completed and vindicated by The Divine Comedy . |
| 12 | Jordan considered what an unselfconscious poseur Cabochon was at times . |
| 13 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 14 | It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators . |
| 15 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 16 | The dolls became amusing , and at times touching , symbols of childhood moods , and although the treatment was at times sentimental it also had a genuine gaiety . |
| 17 | It was at times like this that I felt very small in the landscape . |
| 18 | It was at times like this that my physical and emotional stamina dangerously evaporated ; nurturing was essential . |
| 19 | It was noted that , in theory , any needs could be met by co-operative and/or internal training , particularly as the context of co-operation encompasses a wide range of possible co-operative relationships , so that the boundary between an ‘ internal ’ and an ‘ external ’ programme was at times very indistinct . |
| 20 | The weather in Malaysia was at times a wall of rain , forcing us to seek permission to land at Alor Setar . |
| 21 | It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out . |
| 22 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 23 | Jenny Marx 's life was at times appallingly wretched and difficult . |
| 24 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 25 | To the east lay border regions — Berry and Auvergne — where even the Duke 's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful . |
| 26 | Alix was mousy , square-faced , healthy of complexion , and , even then , extraordinarily pleasant of expression , with a pleasantness that was at times radiant , and almost always irrefutable : she was wearing , as girls who had them did for their Oxbridge interviews in those days , a two-piece middle-aged suit of an oatmeal mix , with square shoulders and a straight skirt . |
| 27 | At the same time , under the general conditions of this best-known of all forms of patronage , certain less specific forms of professional organization in the arts were often present , at a different stage : evidently in the master and apprentice system which was at times similar to that in a wider area of skills and crafts ( see pages 58ff below ) . |
| 28 | His journals in particular constitute a moving memorial to a young man of integrity and moral courage , whose determination not to succumb to pain and humiliation was at times heroic . |
| 29 | He was at times obsessed by his feelings for women . |
| 30 | The 27-year-old North-East man was at times impatient and ragged and displayed the expected ring rust from the ten-month lay-off he had had before the fight . |