Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at the time and " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said .
2 Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since .
3 The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy .
4 Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father .
5 If the two pairs of projectors are in line , the intention is not usually a multi-image effect In fact , it s likely that the two projectors nearer to the camera will not contain so much an image as an image-blocker , ie a mask or matte that blocks out part of the image behind it Since the two mattes will normally be complementary , and the combined image can be seen by inspection through the camera 's viewfinder , any faults , such as overlaps or gaps , should be observed at the time and , if possible , corrected on a second , third or fourth take This is more economical and satisfactory than getting the results of multiple passes back from the lab and discovering that a whole day 's work has to be redone .
6 One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam .
7 A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days .
8 On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards .
9 Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation .
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