Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his actions were widely condemned at the time and subsequently , it is a more open question whether his objectives were so much at odds with those of his government . |
| 2 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 3 | That this was due not merely to right-wing and civil service sabotage is clearly recognised by the left MPs who were most involved at the time . |
| 4 | Given any example of a classic scientific theory , whether at the time of its first proposal or at a later date , it is possible to find observational claims that were generally accepted at the time and were considered to be inconsistent with the theory . |
| 5 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 6 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 7 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 8 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 9 | ( She and Jack were still married at the time . ) |
| 10 | In no other respect does the order make changes in arrangements put in place last year which were extensively debated at the time and which , as I said to the House in October , appear to be working well . |
| 11 | So popular were these annotated flower-pieces , engraved by Henry Fletcher [ q.v. ] , that they were frequently copied at the time , and later reprints kept them in circulation . |
| 12 | The actions of Rochdale 's Social Services were strongly criticised at the time . |
| 13 | Catches were well documented at the time and proceeds from sales were distributed to the poor of Doncaster . |
| 14 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 15 | However , charges of corruption were certainly made at the time , and one must try to discover how firmly they were based . |
| 16 | The transfer was mentioned a couple of times in passing , in later years , during conversation , but the papers were never produced at the time . |
| 17 | Hindsight throws a retrospective shadow over people and events which distort light and shade as they were actually perceived at the time . |
| 18 | The importance of the Cold War was strikingly underlined at the time by a comment of the future American director of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 19 | He was badly stung at the time , but later , being the reasonable chap he was , he saw it as reasonable . |
| 20 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 21 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 22 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
| 23 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 24 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |
| 25 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 26 | It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife . |
| 27 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife . |
| 28 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband , it would be appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title , although it seems to be accepted in practice that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase . |
| 29 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 30 | His flat was sparsely furnished at the time . |