Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk . |
| 2 | While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable . |
| 3 | While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable . |
| 4 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 5 | Most of us were encouraged at one time to ‘ dress up ’ and look pretty . |
| 6 | Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed . |
| 7 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 8 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 9 | A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens . |
| 10 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 11 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 12 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 13 | The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective . |
| 14 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 15 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 16 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 17 | This was an intelligence test that was taken at that time by all children who wanted state education . |
| 18 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 19 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |
| 20 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 21 | In 1985 , for example , of total federal revenue of 686 billion dinars , 110 billion dinars was derived from customs duties , 264 billion dinars from basic sales tax ( of which the federal government was entitled at that time to one-half ) , and 251 billion dinars from transfers from the republics and provinces . |