Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.

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1 No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’
2 Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time .
3 Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 .
4 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
5 Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack .
6 Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time .
7 Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release .
8 So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success .
9 Four members of the press were allowed in at a time .
10 Once again , the two kings were stranded together at a time when the kingdom of Sicily was at a particularly explosive juncture in its long and turbulent history .
11 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
12 Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ?
13 Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time .
14 I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does .
15 But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study .
16 His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya .
17 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
18 Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time .
19 It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts .
20 I only explained I was listening in at the time .
21 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
22 To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time .
23 ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that .
24 Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ?
25 Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time .
26 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
27 A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 .
28 It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces .
29 ‘ Because I 'll never cry for you again , ’ I said , which was a very false promise , because I was crying inside at the time , and only I know how much I cried for her later .
30 David Paul McKnight ( 27 ) , of Juniper Park was said by his solicitor at Craigavon Crown Court to be ‘ a virtual alcoholic ’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the offences on January 4 .
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