Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is retroactive : it applies even to actions that were legal at the time . |
| 2 | There is evidence that the whole Southern Front operation , for which North pushed particularly , was justified in retrospect with successes that were invisible at the time . |
| 3 | The newspaper eventually followed others into the Docklands print centres that were fashionable at the time , and 66 Vauxhall Bridge Road returned to its position of anonymity . |
| 4 | In experiments on the colon ( colonic transit ) , one cannula was positioned in the postcaecal portion of the colon ; a second cannula was placed in the most distal part of the colon that was accessible at the time of laparotomy . |
| 5 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |
| 6 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 7 | The thing is that what we need and what 's missing from this is in fact the balance that was available at the time we started this period . |
| 8 | Any such changes are confined to the application that was active at the time . |
| 9 | However , Hitchcock 's keywell inlay is generally of a simple rectangle , whereas Mercier and William Smith are in agreement that the rectangle should be broken with half circles on the shorter sides — a decorative motif that was common at the time and appears on a number of spinets ( though not apparently any by Thomas Hitchcock ) . |
| 10 | I remember knitting my daughter a summer top in a colour that was fashionable at the time . |
| 11 | But a spokesman for NatWest said : ‘ When the reference was prepared it was provided in good faith and was reasonable at the time it was prepared . |
| 12 | King Charles II visited the troops on Leith Links and was resident at the time in the mansion of Lord Balmerino , Kirkgate . |
| 13 | The driver , Christopher Hart , who 's thirty-nine and was unemployed at the time , was seen to slow down and then accelerate off , leaving the girl fatally injured . |
| 14 | The picture was signed " Madeleine Bernard " , and Alexander told Frederica that Gauguin had flirted seriously with that young woman , had characterised her , as was fashionable at the time , as having the desirable , unattainable androgynous perfection , complete sensuality combined with unattainable self-sufficiency . |
| 15 | As was common at the time , William went straight from school into the merchant navy and he was seldom at home throughout his teenage years as he sailed the oceans of the world , learning the skills of seamanship and navigation . |
| 16 | But they were undoubtedly also , as was common at the time , a cover for trade combination . |