Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 2 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 3 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 4 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 5 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 6 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 7 | However , this was not how matters were understood at the time . |
| 8 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |
| 9 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 10 | The findings can be compared with the way in which policy actions were described at the time , and one sub- period can be compared with another . |
| 11 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 12 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
| 13 | Sexual relations were prohibited during the time of a woman 's menstruation . |
| 14 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
| 15 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 16 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |
| 17 | Is he aware that only last week there was another incident of water pollution where a known carcinogen , formaldehyde , was tipped into the river and only fortuitously the company 's intakes were closed at the time ? |
| 18 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 19 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 20 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 21 | Child deaths were identified at the time of the home visits , and also through a network of about 100 key informants — members of the study community who were asked to record all pregnancies , births , and child deaths in their area . |
| 22 | It was well endowed with ‘ footpads ’ , which is what muggers and thieves were called at the time . |