Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the 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 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 15 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Going back slowly , a little at a time , it became evident that Sylvia 's fear of being closed in had originated very early indeed ; it was already established by the time she was one year old . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 25 | But little of this was clearly known at the time , and so some observers concluded that Paul VI secretly connived with the minority . |
| 26 | I was I was , I was slightly banked at the time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |