Example sentences of "was at [adj] times " in BNC.

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1 It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world .
2 He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint .
3 He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch .
4 However , the British civil courts have ruled that the payment was unlawful and that the money was at all times the property of Guinness .
5 Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence .
6 Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka .
7 He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected .
8 He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — .
9 Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full .
10 My relationship with Marcia Williams was at all times rather chilly .
11 I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship .
12 It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal .
13 It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom .
14 A steady eighty miles an hour and where it was at these times .
15 That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths .
16 The symmetry T means that if you reverse the direction of motion of all particles and antiparticles , the system should go back to what it was at earlier times ; in other words , the laws are the same in the forward and backward directions of time .
17 Founded in the 12th century on what was then virtually an island in the fens , Denny Abbey was at different times home to Benedictine monks , Knights Templars and Franciscan nuns .
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