Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he put it : " We were rather cross at the time that all the torches back on the shore spoilt our chances of photographing the moon . " |
| 2 | Well since nineteen forty-five , in the Federal Republic of Germany , there is very little difference essentially between the educational system erm there and the educational system in this country , for very obvious reasons , I think the western Allies simply imposed their values , their educational systems among other things , on the West Germans , who were rather reluctant at the time to accept it , but have grown to love those values and arguably are now as good if not better at preserving them than we are . |
| 3 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
| 5 | Maidstone is one of a number of designated prisons able to take ‘ lifers ’ and it can provide up to 100 places for them , although there were only 80 at the time of my visit . |
| 6 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 7 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 8 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 9 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 10 | The Burgundians , however , were already Christian at the time of Syagrius 's involvement in their legislation . |
| 11 | But if she were still alive at the time of his second marriage , nearly twenty years later , then it was bigamous . ’ |
| 12 | But editors who refuse to retract damaging comments after clear proof that they are wildly exaggerated may lay themselves open to the inference from this conduct that they were similarly reckless at the time of the original publication . |
| 13 | It was held that there was no duty of care on landlords to ensure that premises were reasonably safe at the time of the letting . |
| 14 | Some of the officers concerned were also unsure at the time that such courses had been sufficiently thought through . |
| 15 | Prince Albert and Queen Victoria , who was a martyr to seasickness , were also enthusiastic at a time when Anglo-French relations were noticeably warmer than in the previous 50 years . |
| 16 | involved discussions in all sorts of disciplines ( within the professional body , with the educational institutions and within the CNAA itself , many of which were decidedly uncomfortable at the time ) . |
| 17 | During the sociable sorting period , some of us reflected that others were probably alone at the time , in their kitchens , baking for Christian Aid . |
| 18 | These were as unquestioned in the time of Jenkin and Darwin as our speciesist assumptions of human rights , human dignity , and the sacredness of human life are unquestioned today . |
| 19 | Course it was very nice and we got a proper dinner at this erm mind you we were absolutely famished by the time we got there . |
| 20 | On a note of caution , it should be pointed out that the people involved in minor marriages were considerably younger at the time of the formalization of the marriage than those involved in the major marriages . |
| 21 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 22 | They showed there was a limit to what people could tolerate and were very important at the time . ’ |