Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his film background , Verity Lambert saw in Barry a good technical brain , ingenious enough to overcome Doctor Who 's limited budget through inventiveness and by optimum use of what special effects were available at the time . |
| 2 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 3 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 4 | All prices were correct at the time of going to press . |
| 5 | This was the case whether or not calculi were present at the time . |
| 6 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 7 | All interest rates and lending criteria were correct at the time of going to press but readers should check with the lenders for the latest up-to-the-minute information . |
| 8 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |