Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 2 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 3 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 6 | When interpreting these tables it should be remembered that no matter how many animals were stolen at a time the case was recorded as one theft . |
| 7 | These roles were pursued at a time when the ideas , language , and values underpinning social care were changing rapidly and when resource constraints were worsening . |
| 8 | In two recent books which attempt to examine the philosophy and practice of a radical adult education , the only substantial references to education for trade unionists are historical ; yet both books were conceived at a time of unparalleled expansion in trade union education , underpinned by a sizeable government grant and the first statutory entitlements to paid educational leave for working-class people that Britain has ever experienced . |
| 9 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 10 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Various other objections to the Nestlé takeover of Rowntree were raised at the time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 15 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 19 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
| 22 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 23 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 24 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
| 25 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 26 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 27 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 28 | But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate , unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers . |
| 29 | Sexual relations were prohibited during the time of a woman 's menstruation . |
| 30 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |