Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [art] time of " in BNC.
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1 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
2 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
3 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
4 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
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 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
7 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
8 | Now police are examining video tapes from cameras used for crowd control and security , which it is believed were recording at the time of the attack . |
9 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
12 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
13 | The two men were arrested at a time of increasing student political activism , and a renewed government offensive against the supposed communist threat . |
14 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
15 | The 1927 powers of detention were conferred at a time of enormous concern about the high birth rate of mental defectives and the supposed decline in the ‘ national intelligence ’ . |
16 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
17 | Child deaths were identified at the time of the home visits , and also through a network of about 100 key informants — members of the study community who were asked to record all pregnancies , births , and child deaths in their area . |
18 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
19 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Volunteers from the Gambian village , Brefet , which has hyperendemic malaria , were studied at the time of year with lowest malaria transmission : none had had a recent febrile illness . |
22 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
23 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
24 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
25 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |
26 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
27 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
30 | Because of the recession the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) will be high , and a figure of £28bn for 1992/93 was forecast at the time of the Budget in March . |