Example sentences of "were [vb pp] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 2 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 3 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 6 | These arms were commissioned at the time for a New Bond Street warehouse at a cost of 20 guineas . |
| 7 | The two dimensional images were displayed at the time of acquisition and simultaneously stored into computer hard disc memory by an array processor . |
| 8 | Doubts were raised at the time about the possible increase in working hours for headteachers in order to operate this system . |
| 9 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
| 10 | Patients were randomised at the time of endoscopy or within 12 hours after fulfilling the inclusion criteria . |
| 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 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
| 13 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 14 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 17 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 18 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 19 | Volunteers from the Gambian village , Brefet , which has hyperendemic malaria , were studied at the time of year with lowest malaria transmission : none had had a recent febrile illness . |
| 20 | All these items were acquired at the time of their manufacture , as it was museum policy to buy contemporary material . |
| 21 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |
| 22 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |