Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Robson QC , defending , said Lee was a ‘ decent , caring , sensitive ’ girl whose mind was disturbed at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 4 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 5 | This portrait was drawn at the time . |
| 6 | A splendid science weekly called Modern Wonder was published at the time . |
| 7 | In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied . |
| 8 | The idiosyncratic nature of Our Daily Bread was appreciated at the time of its release and was attributed to the obvious conflict between Vidor 's convictions and box-office considerations . |
| 9 | If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands . |
| 10 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 11 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 12 | The war intervened with the result that this urgent question was postponed for the time being . |
| 13 | The accident was investigated at the time , you say ? ’ |
| 14 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 15 | A clinical score was derived at the time of each dialysis by adding scores for : abdominal pain ( none=0 , mild=1 , moderate=2 , severe=3 ) ; the stool frequency ( 1 or less per day=0 , 2 to 3=1 , 4 to 5=2 , 6 to 9=3 , 10 or more=4 ) ; the visible presence of blood in the stool ( none=0 , a trace=1 , more than a trace=2 ) ; and the stool consistency ( normal=0 , semiformed=1 , liquid=2 ) . |
| 16 | This raises problems where the plaintiff was drunk at the time . |
| 17 | Magellan refused , of course — except that he was evidently frustrated enough at the lack of success in finding a way through to promise that if no strait was found by the time they had eaten up another 25° of latitude , he would turn east as they wished . |
| 18 | Under the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , which also imposed a reasonableness test , reasonableness was judged at the time of the breach . |
| 19 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 20 | No name was mentioned at the time , and ten days later I was formally charged with manslaughter . |
| 21 | Same thing affected the Prodraw review , and the contents page was printed by the time its new position had been determined . |
| 22 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 23 | If , in accordance with the view I have just expressed , such a person or firm were given the right to apply immediately the notice was served for it to be rescinded , this remedy might well be of no effect if a press notice was issued at the time of service of the intervention notice , as was done in this case . |
| 24 | Six days notice was required of the time and place of the weighing in order that the Lord 's agent could attend . |
| 25 | Er sometimes the police , if , if there was a police station near , they would phone a message through but er quite of quite often and then you 'd , you 'd get there and often you 'd hear the baby was born by the time you got there . |
| 26 | The door was closed at the time . |
| 27 | The abbey was built at the time of transition from Romanesque to Gothic architecture , and its remains form an important element in Scotland 's architectural heritage . |
| 28 | Built of brick in 1764 , the rectory was whitewashed at the time , in order to match the small church of St Peter standing beside , also white-washed to enliven its poor-looking rubble walls . |
| 29 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 30 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |