Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 2 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 3 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 4 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 5 | David Robson QC , defending , said Lee was a ‘ decent , caring , sensitive ’ girl whose mind was disturbed at the time . |
| 6 | Leyland 's own collection of oriental porcelain was dispersed at the time of his death and , apart from ten or so pieces , the shelves had remained empty until now . |
| 7 | One unusual communications medium employed on the battlefield was reported by The Times . |
| 8 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 9 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 10 | Various other objections to the Nestlé takeover of Rowntree were raised at the time . |
| 11 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 12 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 13 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 14 | This portrait was drawn at the time . |
| 15 | Philip Gould nudged stony-faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ‘ helped save the Labour Party more than £500,000 at the last election ’ . |
| 16 | A splendid science weekly called Modern Wonder was published at the time . |
| 17 | In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied . |
| 18 | The idiosyncratic nature of Our Daily Bread was appreciated at the time of its release and was attributed to the obvious conflict between Vidor 's convictions and box-office considerations . |
| 19 | If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands . |
| 20 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 21 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 22 | The war intervened with the result that this urgent question was postponed for the time being . |
| 23 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |
| 24 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 25 | The accident was investigated at the time , you say ? ’ |
| 26 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 27 | A clinical score was derived at the time of each dialysis by adding scores for : abdominal pain ( none=0 , mild=1 , moderate=2 , severe=3 ) ; the stool frequency ( 1 or less per day=0 , 2 to 3=1 , 4 to 5=2 , 6 to 9=3 , 10 or more=4 ) ; the visible presence of blood in the stool ( none=0 , a trace=1 , more than a trace=2 ) ; and the stool consistency ( normal=0 , semiformed=1 , liquid=2 ) . |
| 28 | This raises problems where the plaintiff was drunk at the time . |
| 29 | The findings can be compared with the way in which policy actions were described at the time , and one sub- period can be compared with another . |
| 30 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |