Example sentences of "[was/were] at the time of the " in BNC.
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1 | Ballymacarrett and Clonard people were at the time of the research overwhelmingly unemployed or in unskilled and low-status occupations . |
2 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
3 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
4 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
5 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
6 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
7 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
8 | First , there is now , and indeed there was at the time of the committal hearing , no equity in the property . |
9 | Since the infant plaintiff was at the time of the accident en ventre sa mère she was not then a person or a human being in esse and in fact she had no separate existence apart from her mother . |
10 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
11 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
12 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
13 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
14 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
15 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
16 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
17 | Neither was at the time of the sale physically attached to the realty . |
18 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |