Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 2 | Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter . |
| 3 | Daniel was pie-eyed at the time , anyway . ’ |
| 4 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 5 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 6 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 7 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 8 | Moira was 12 at the time . |
| 9 | Charles was thirty at the time . |
| 10 | The Regent was concerned about the time . |
| 11 | ‘ Naylor was ten at the time , was n't he ? ’ |
| 12 | Both sides have struggled in the league this year and Haslemere were grateful for the time and space they were allowed in this match . |
| 13 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |