Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the Cold War was strikingly underlined at the time by a comment of the future American director of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 2 | He was badly stung at the time , but later , being the reasonable chap he was , he saw it as reasonable . |
| 3 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 4 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 5 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
| 6 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 7 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |
| 8 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 9 | It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife . |
| 10 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife . |
| 11 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband , it would be appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title , although it seems to be accepted in practice that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase . |
| 12 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 13 | His flat was sparsely furnished at the time . |
| 14 | ( In the same letter Leech referred to a man who ‘ was brought into the Infirmary this morning with violent concussion of the brain occasioned by a fall from the mail coach as it was passing through Harrowden , he was much intoxicated at the time the accident happened . |
| 15 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 16 | One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant . |
| 17 | His final decision was possibly taken at the time of the war with Alaric , when he may have thought that there was propaganda value to be gained by standing as the defender of the catholic Church ; he was subsequently baptised , probably in 508 . |
| 18 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
| 19 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 20 | But little of this was clearly known at the time , and so some observers concluded that Paul VI secretly connived with the minority . |
| 21 | I was I was , I was slightly banked at the time . |
| 22 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 23 | It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . |
| 24 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 25 | It is true that much contemporary prose has a clarity and directness that was often lacking at the time when Huey wrote , while technical aids have developed beyond what he could have imagined . |
| 26 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 27 | Terry was really taken at the time with bands like The Cardiacs , but none of the rest of us could get off on that impressive-sounding , orchestral rock band kind of approach . |
| 28 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 29 | However , the most important ingredient missing hitherto from the peace process — international acceptance of the Palestinians ' choice of representative — was dramatically fulfilled at the time of the first anniversary of the Uprising . |
| 30 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |