Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 2 | With his film background , Verity Lambert saw in Barry a good technical brain , ingenious enough to overcome Doctor Who 's limited budget through inventiveness and by optimum use of what special effects were available at the time . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) That the transfer had been executed within the powers of the attorney ; that between the defendant and the perpetrators of the fraud the transfer was merely voidable ; and that , accordingly , the transfer was valid at the time when the building society advanced the mortgage money ( post , p. 680C–G , H ) . |
| 4 | It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected . |
| 5 | No evidence of H pylori infection or mucosal inflammation were present at the time of reinvestigation . |
| 6 | On this occasion , however , Kaifu had resisted the move , arguing that Cabinet stability and continuity were crucial at a time when the government was under pressure from the impact of the Gulf crisis and from the collapse of the " Uruguay Round " of multinational trade negotiations . |
| 7 | The match was level at the time and the Welsh were forced to concede the tie . |
| 8 | It was in this context that Lord Denning in Dunford and Elliott v Firth Brown [ 1978 ] FSR 143 added a gloss to the analysis of Megarry V-C in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd when he said that if the stipulation of confidence was unreasonable at the time of making it ; or if it was reasonable at the beginning , but afterwards , in the course of subsequent happenings , it becomes unreasonable that it should be enforced : then the courts will decline to enforce it . |
| 9 | Where part of the estate consisted of a ‘ matrimonial home ’ , i.e. a house in which the surviving spouse was resident at the time of the death , the spouse may normally require the representatives to appropriate the deceased 's interest in the house in or towards the satisfaction of his or her absolute interest in the estate . |
| 10 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 11 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 12 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 13 | Daniel was pie-eyed at the time , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | The classifications and quality commendations that appear in entries in this guide were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 15 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 16 | The appetite for travel tales was insatiable at a time when so many young people were taking the chance of good fortune in lands newly opened up , often in aided emigration schemes such as Kingston himself administered . |
| 17 | All prices were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 18 | This was the case whether or not calculi were present at the time . |
| 19 | The prices contained in this brochure were valid at the time of publication ( October 1991 ) . |
| 20 | Cos that so song was popular at the time ! |
| 21 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |
| 22 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 23 | The mean ( SD ) ages of the patients positive , 20.1 ( 7.9 ) months , and negative , 29.4 ( 16.1 ) months , to oral challenge were comparable at the time of the provocation ; the difference of 9.3 months with 95% confidence interval of ( -0.2 , 18.8 ) was statistically not significant . |
| 24 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 25 | This information was accurate at the time of going to print , which was August 1989 . |
| 26 | This information was accurate at the time of going to print , which was May 1989 . |
| 27 | But his profession was deficient at the time in that he failed to recognise the necessity of suffering . |
| 28 | Maxton , in reply , foresaw the formation of a new working-class party , but would not agree that unification was opportune at the time . |
| 29 | Details of Hector 's history were obscure at the time of writing . |
| 30 | All interest rates and lending criteria were correct at the time of going to press but readers should check with the lenders for the latest up-to-the-minute information . |